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Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 1995 03:16:23 +0059 (MET)
From:      Andreas Schulz <ats@freebsd.first.gmd.de>
To:        geoid@retcam.snu.ac.kr (Jun Gyu-Chang)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [Q] My ping does not work..
Message-ID:  <199512230216.DAA12394@freebsd.first.gmd.de>
In-Reply-To: <199512220335.MAA18593@retcam.snu.ac.kr> from "Jun Gyu-Chang" at Dec 22, 95 12:35:54 pm

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>   My problem is on "ping".  When I log as root, I can use "ping".
>   But, as a plain user, I can not "ping" anywhere.
> 
>   "ping" complains like followings.
> 
>       ping: socket: Permission denied
> 
>   Other network commands run well.
>   "ping" is owned by 'bin' user and 'bin' group.

Your ping command has the wrong permission. I don't know why, maybe your
sysadmin has set it this way.
Normally ping is owned by root, group bin and has the SUID bit set.


	  ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de )

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