On 04/06/2014 17:19, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > >> On 04/06/2014 17:11, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >>> >>>> On 04/06/2014 16:54, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >>>> Why do you need root to ping? >>> >>> All ports less than 1024 are only usable by the root user. >> >> By defautl, perhaps. See the rest of my post. >> >> Otherwise, how do you explain this (Debian): >> pascaldev@debianlaz:~/papertiger$ whoami >> pascaldev >> pascaldev@debianlaz:~/papertiger$ ping www.freepascal.org >> PING www.freepascal.org (81.82.199.218) 56(84) bytes of data. >> 64 bytes from d5152C7DA.static.telenet.be (81.82.199.218): icmp_seq=1 >> ttl=51 time=21.5 ms > > Ts ts ts > > home: >which ping > /bin/ping > home: >ls -l /bin/ping > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 35712 Nov 8 2011 /bin/ping* > > ping is setuid root.
Maybe on your machine. pascaldev@debianlaz:~/papertiger$ which ping /bin/ping pascaldev@debianlaz:~/papertiger$ ls -al /bin/ping -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44080 Feb 1 22:18 /bin/ping Anyway, see my first post. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
