From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 22 06:20:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA27157 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 06:20:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA27152 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 06:20:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10943; Fri, 22 Dec 95 15:20:42 +0100 Received: by freebsd.first.gmd.de (DAA12394); Sat, 23 Dec 1995 03:16:23 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199512230216.DAA12394@freebsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: [Q] My ping does not work.. To: geoid@retcam.snu.ac.kr (Jun Gyu-Chang) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 03:16:23 +0059 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199512220335.MAA18593@retcam.snu.ac.kr> from "Jun Gyu-Chang" at Dec 22, 95 12:35:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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 ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.10 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe