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

Elan Ruusamäe glen at delfi.ee
Wed Mar 9 16:29:30 CET 2005


On Wednesday 09 March 2005 16:53, Paweł Gołaszewski wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Elan [windows-1257] Ruusamäe wrote:
> > > > > > why wrong? /bin/ping is for daemons, /usr/bin/ping is for lusers
> > > > > > (by mmazur@#pld)
> > > > >
> > > > > what? /usr/bin/ping is non-suid ping. It does not send icmp
> > > > > messages and is often not useful. /bin/ping is regular, icmp ping.
> > > >
> > > > i need to use icmp ping, /bin/ping for the nagios daemon
> > >
> > > Why not to use adm group for that purpose? In that group are only
> > > ping/traceroute/mtr utilities...
> >
> > are you sure?
>
> files that came from distro? yes, I'm sure.
>
> > i have few config files in same group in my system (altho the group
> > membership wasn't from PLD).
>
> this is your private configuration...
but still using group 'adm' means something administrative, aka person beind 
it (ie not a daemon), and from name you can't understand where's actually 
being used. but having group "icmp" -> ahaa, icmp related privileges

-- 
glen




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