Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)
On 2019-05-29, Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
>
> How did you install this system? Because /bin/ping is supposed to
> come with file capabilities such that the user can allow it to do
> what it needs to do (this is part of what 'dpkg-reconfigure
> iputils-ping' restores). So it would be interesting to know how the
> system was installed in case there is a general theme for those who
> never got those capabilities.
There is a bug related to this imbroglio:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780721
(libcap2-bin is recommended but is not a dependancy of iputils-ping,
because "iputils-ping, as priority 'important', cannot declare a
dependency on libcap2-bin, which is priority 'optional'").
> One other person in this thread said they used (a script which
> ultimately uses) debootstrap.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>
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