On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 08:56:01PM +0100, R�p�si Tibor wrote: > > What is /bin/ping6 ??? Is it normal that /bin/ping and /bin/ping6 has setuid > to root? >
Ping6 is the IPv6 version of ping. It is normal that they have setuid turned on. Othwerise, non-root users can not open the ICMP socket needed to send and receive echo requests and replies. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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