From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 14: 7:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37BD37BBFD for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:07:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e6OL7Mo12598; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:07:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:07:22 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Sam Carleton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: allowing normal user to run ping Message-ID: <20000724140721.C13979@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <397CAB93.483FBE99@miltonstreet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <397CAB93.483FBE99@miltonstreet.com>; from scarleton@miltonstreet.com on Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 04:48:19PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Sam Carleton [000724 13:49] wrote: > I have a normal user on my FreeBSD box that needs to run ping and > traceroute. I do NOT want to give this user the ability to su in as > root. What do I need to do so this user can run ping and traceroute? Ping and traceroute are suid therefore you don't need to be root to use them, they automatically grant the appropriate level of privledge to perform the operations needed. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message