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From: dfawcus+lists-tuhs@employees.org (Derek Fawcus)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 19:51:15 +0100
Subject: [TUHS] rm command
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 04:33:51PM +0000, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> 
> If you want weird, then tell me why on Earth /bin/ping _really_ needs
> to be setuid root on Linux (has no one heard of capabilities?),

It doesn't even need that anymore, like darwin it supports SOCK_DGRAM
ICMP sockets, such that ping can be written as an unpriviledged program.

DF