Re: ping must be run as root?
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Hi, when i try to run "ping" (on a fresh Debian 2.2 install) as a
> non-root user i get "ping must be run as root". What is the reason?
>
> I think this has something to do with pam, but i found nothing
> related to ping in pam's configs.
It has nothing to do with PAM.
"ping" needs to run as root to be able to create a raw socket to send the
ICMP packets out through.
The "ping" variant installed Debian 2.2 drops root priviledge after the
raw socket is created.
If you wan't to run "ping" as non-root, you need to make it suid-root.
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