[ale] Ping not setuid anymore?
DJ-Pfulio
DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
Fri Jun 26 10:37:57 EDT 2020
Forever, /bin/ping had to be setuid root to work due to "raw sockets."
Noticed that in 20.04, ping isn't setuid root, but still works?
$ ls -F ping
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 72776 Jan 30 18:11 ping*
$ getcap /bin/ping
/bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep
$ man getcap
NAME
getcap - examine file capabilities
DESCRIPTION
getcap displays the name and capabilities of each specified
What more could a manpage say? This has got to be one of the most useless manpages I've ever seen. It certainly isn't ssh or rsync, which are works of art. Seems a list of capabilities and meanings for each would be helpful?
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