Re: make ping executable by normal users?

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 01:56:08PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
> On my old debian system I could ping as a normal user.  The ping
> binary had the suid bit set.  Now I get:
> 
>     $ ping www.google.com
>     ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
>     2 $
> 
> presumably because the bit isn't set.
> 
> What's the right fix?  I could setuid it but then if I understand
> correctly it might get changed back by an upgrade.  Does it use
> capabilites or something?

Yes, it uses capabilities. The simple fix is to do this:

dpkg-reconfigure iputils-ping