On 8/22/2005 12:39, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:03:49PM -0400, Jason Gurtz wrote: > >> That's crazy. Normal pings shouldn't require root. > > IIRC, the standard kernel socket interface simply has no way to send any > kind of ICMP packet (echo-request included). Therefore, you need to > open a raw socket, and write the headers yourself.
Hmm, still think it's crazy. Maybe that's a missing feature in the kernel? Somehow I think that'll never see the light of day. I looked and my ping is setuid. -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 15876 Sep 4 2001 /bin/ping* ~Jason -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
