On Wed 05 Mar 2014 at 22:48:08 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Correction If you are going to offer one, so will I. :) You were referencing the line in the article which has If you copy ping, it loses its setuid bit and fails to work This is correct for 'cp /bin/ping'; either the suid bit or the capabilities is lost. 'cp -a /bin/ping' preserves the suid bit or capabilities.