Re: Derek's been hacked

[Cole Tuininga]

Benjamin Scott wrote:
>   What I want to know is, why the heck is ping SUID-root?

The generation of an icmp packet requires raw access to the eth device. 
This requires root priv's.

-Cole Tuininga

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