Well, you could even enable ping capabilities by unpriviledged users with the ICMP socket type:
# sysctl -w net.ipv4.ping_group_range='0 65536' $ strace -esocket ping 127.0.0.1 socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_ICMP) = 3 Regards, On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 10:30 PM Launchpad Bug Tracker <1302...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > > This bug was fixed in the package livecd-rootfs - 2.534 > > --------------- > livecd-rootfs (2.534) cosmic; urgency=medium > > [ Michael Hudson-Doyle ] > * Disable journald rate limiting in the live-server live session. > (LP: #1776891) > > [ Steve Langasek ] > * generate all tar files with --xattrs. LP: #1302192. > > -- Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Aug 2018 > 13:12:02 -0700 > > ** Changed in: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Fix Released > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1302192 > > Title: > capabilities not preserved on installation > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/attr/+bug/1302192/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to iputils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1302192 Title: capabilities not preserved on installation Status in attr package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in iputils package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in live-installer package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in attr source package in Trusty: Fix Released Status in iputils source package in Trusty: Confirmed Status in live-installer source package in Trusty: Fix Released Status in ubiquity source package in Trusty: Fix Released Bug description: Ping is not longer setuid root and I have to ping as root: [~]$ ping kubuntu.org ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted [~]$ sudo ping kubuntu.org PING kubuntu.org (91.189.94.156) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from vostok.canonical.com (91.189.94.156): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=52.2 ms --- kubuntu.org ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 52.231/52.231/52.231/0.000 ms [~]$ Related bugs: bug 1313550: ping does not work as a normal user on trusty tarball cloud images. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/attr/+bug/1302192/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
