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wglb on Aug 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: 6.0 Northern California earthquake

Check your local linux box with:

  file /bin/ping

and you will see that it is setuid to root.

dekhn on Aug 24, 2014 [–]

I think it depends on the distribution: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Capabilities seems to imply that ping could be used with CAP_NET_RAW capability instead of setuid root. http://blog.siphos.be/2013/05/capabilities-a-short-intro/ suggests that as well.

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