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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!noc.near.net!das-news2.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!udel!pooh.eecis.udel.edu!harvell From: harvell@pooh.eecis.udel.edu (Brian Harvell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Permission denied for a socket Date: 3 Oct 1995 17:38:21 GMT Organization: University of Delaware, Newark Lines: 23 Message-ID: <44rsed$l7q@louie.udel.edu> References: <44p5o5$ikq@despina.neptune.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pooh.eecis.udel.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1121 comp.unix.misc:18731 comp.unix.questions:70536 In article <44p5o5$ikq@despina.neptune.com>, Tom Techoueyres <tom@neptune.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I have a pentium running BSDI. As root I can use the ping command, but >my users get the following message when they try to use ping: >ping: socket: permission denied >Obviously it is a file permission problem but what file or socket? > >I will appreciate any help. > >Thank You > >Tom Techoueyres >tom@neptune.com > Probably because your ping is not setuid root. Any program that opens up a socket in the reserved ports has to have root perms. Brian