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Re: Re: Re: Unexpected results from pingby xmath (Hermit) |
on Mar 04, 2003 at 15:19 UTC ( [id://240373]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
you can test it yourself by logging in as a non-root user and playing with the "ping" program The "ping" utility is always setuid root:
That's why normal users can use it. :-) Update: it seems that lately raw sockets are no longer needed for ICMP on some platforms (Darwin / Mac OS X); but on most (Linux etc) they still are
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