Package: oping Version: 1.7.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream There is an effort upstream to make oping use the DGRAM socket type instead of RAW to do root-less pings:
https://github.com/octo/liboping/pull/7 In the meantime, maybe this package could do like iputils-ping and use capabilities instead of suid? -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44104 nov 8 2014 /bin/ping -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 18792 oct 21 2014 /usr/bin/oping $ getcap /usr/bin/ping /bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages oping depends on: ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libncursesw5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii liboping0 1.7.0-1 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 oping recommends no packages. oping suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
