On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, David Huecking wrote:
The only special I know about ping is that without the sticky bit a normal (non-root) user can't open a socket to use it. -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 29680 Sep 20 2001 /bin/ping
That is set and has always been.
When the sticky bit is removed a normal user gets the error "ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted".
Right, but I didn't see that.
The error-message "ping: unknown host..." sounds more like an error in name-resolving in that very moment. Could you try the ping not with a DNS-name but with an IP (e.g. 193.99.144.71 for www.heise.de) or maybe you
Yes, that does it. Apparently, name resolution failed!!! Today, I noticed that these effects disappear when I change permissions (in yast) to "easy" and restart the pppd daemon. Apparently, SuSEconfig changes pppd to group dialout with a SUID bit. When the daemon is started with the new permissions it somehow brings up these effects. Strange! Michael