It *does* have to do with the dialout group, at least on my system (maybe due to harden_suse and the "secure" permission stuff)? Please try a ping as user nobody and look if it works. For me, it does *only* if nobody is part of the dialout group. The second I delete nobody from dialout (/etc/group), it doesn't any longer. Maybe someone from the SuSE team can explain this? To be honest, I don't understand how (and where) this works myself. Should be interesting! =8, Thanks, Michael On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
* Michael Seewald wrote on Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 22:13 +0200:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Michael Seewald wrote:
Before the update "ping www.heise.de" as "nobody" gave me the ping of that host. Now, this is no longer the case: "ping: unknown host www.spiegel.de". However, every other user can do the ping. (Network is up, of course!)
/etc/group - dialout - I got it, sorry for asking.
What the heck ping has to do with dialout?!