Laurent MARTIN wrote:
Hi!
I've installed the IPutils package on my N770 and I've noticed that
I'm not able to ping as "normal" user (aka "user"):
"ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted"
Things work well if I use ping as "root" user (sudo gainroot). Is this
a normal behaviour?
on *nix, you have to be root to open a 'raw' socket, which is what ping
uses (a raw socket of type ICMP).
if you write a little 'c', you'll find you have to be root (or the
program must be suid root) in order to do this:
socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, 1);
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