Re: setting sysctl net.ipv4.ping_group_range
On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 10:11:38PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jan 02, Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> wrote:
>
> > I personally would prefer giving the administrator a way to change that.
> > Maybe add a low priority debconf question with a "ping is not setuid"
> > default, then mention that debconf setting in a comment in the file that
> > the package installs in the sysctl.d/ directory.
> Please don't. There are already way too many debconf questions and this
> one would be totally pointless: anybody who cares to change the default
> can just locally override the /usr/lib/sysctl.d/ file with a drop-in in
> /etc/sysctl.d/ .
+1. I don't have any desire to add debconf to iputils-ping. I'd suggest
the /etc/sysctl.d/ approach for admin overrides as well.
noah
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