Mario Charest
10/24/2008 9:12 AM
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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:56:48AM -0400, Mario Charest wrote:
> > Program like ping and rcp fail with a "can't create socket permission denied
> error", while other program like telnet work fine.
> >
> > What configuration option can create such a problem. I suspect some file
> got trashed or have their permission screw up but I can't figure out what it
> is.
>
> They should be setuid root. You need root to open a raw socket.
> In utils/p/ping/common.mk this is handled by the
> 'FILE_INFO = 0 0 4775' line.
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> # chown root:root ping
> # chmod u+s ping
>
> -seanb
I though about that but looked on two machines we have and they both don't have +s flag, hence I though it was something
else at first. Looked on a third machine and on that one it's there, grrrr.
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