Fix Ping Permissions in Debian
An upgrade on Debian unstable ("sid") a few days ago left me unable to ping.
When I tried, I got
ping: socket: Operation not permitted
with an additional reason of
missing cap_net_raw+p capability or setuid?
Ping worked fine as root, so it was a permission problem.
After some discussion on IRC with several helpful people in
#debian-next, I learned two ways of enabling it
(but read to the end before doing either of these,
since there's a better way).
[ 12:37 Oct 21, 2024 More linux | permalink to this entry | ]
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