Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!focsys!larry
From: larry@focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Should "ping" be restricted to root??
Message-ID: <525@focsys.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 15:34:39 GMT
Organization: Focus Automation Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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On our System V/386 Unix, ping works only if the effective
user id of ping is root. Is this really necessary?

As a temporary measure, I've chmod'd ping to run as root.

Is this a bad idea?

If it matters, the system is Interactive 386/ix 1.0.6 and
their host based tcp/ip package v1.0.3.

-larry