SPECS: iputils.spec - group icmp for /bin/ping*

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Monday 07 March 2005 10:23, Paweł Gołaszewski wrote:
> > -%attr(4754,root,adm) /bin/ping*
> > +%attr(4754,root,icmp) /bin/ping*
>
> [...]
>
> Wrong.
>
> rev. 1.30
>
> It should be like that.

why wrong?

/bin/ping is for daemons, /usr/bin/ping is for lusers (by mmazur@#pld)

i need nagios monitoring daemon to execute /bin/ping. and i don't feel good 
giving it adm group membership just for that.

altho what permissions does give being in icmp group i don't know (haven't 
seen doc about that), but perhaps if the reason of being wrong is too many 
privileges, create new group "ping"

for that ankry on #pld said another group? can't you use icmp?

ps: the 1.30 was done 5 years ago, and by kloz... (uups)

ps2: don't double copy me, i'm on devel-en@ list, otherwise i wouldn't be 
posting there :)

-- 
glen