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From: robert@il.ft.hse.nl (Robert Klep)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Permission denied for a socket
Date: 3 Oct 1995 12:08:47 +0100
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In article <whatever>, tom@neptune.com (Tom Techoueyres) wrote:
>I have a pentium running BSDI. As root I can use the ping command, but
>my users get the following message when they try to use ping:
>ping: socket: permission denied
>Obviously it is a file permission problem but what file or socket?
'ping' tries to create a raw ICMP sockets. For that, it needs to run
under setuid root. I suggest you set the file-owner to root, make it
executable for group and other, and make it setuid (chmod u+s ping).
robert