Interesting... under Linux (my only contact with Unix-like O/S) one need not
be SU to ping. hmmm...
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At 10:40 AM 9/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Elan wrote:
>> As far as I recall the problem with ping is that under Unix based systems
>> ping has to temporarily assume super user privileges.
>
>According to the ping.c source code, one of the bugs is that:
> This program has to run SUID to ROOT to access the ICMP socket.
>
>Presumably if REBOL were to implement ICMP, the same condition would
>apply. There *could* be some security issues there.
>
>Regards,
>Kev
