On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:36:58PM +0100, Nicolas DEFFAYET wrote: > > My traceroute6 and ping6 work fine as root but not as user: > > $ traceroute6 www.6bone.net > traceroute6: icmp socket: Operation not permitted > $ ping6 www.6bone.net > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted > > I use RedHat 7.1.
For some reason, the traceroute6 and ping6 utilities on RedHat 7.1
do not ship with the setuid bit set, which they need to have, just
like the IPv4 utilities. Use:
# chmod u+s /usr/sbin/traceroute6 /usr/sbin/ping6
to fix it. -Nathan
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