On Monday 28 August 2006 03:24, Robert Connolly wrote:
> sed 's/4775/4755/' -i ping/Makefile.in

First, I think the shown way is a hack a little. It's better to do the 
following after installation:

chmod 4711 /bin/ping

Second, shouldn't it be 4711 rather than 4755? The read-by-others access 
to a SUID file is a security hole.

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