generic blog of schmidi2

Since an update the ping command stopped working on my ubuntu system. I always get to error “ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted”. Because I don’t wan’t to always use sudo with ping, I did following change on my system:

$ ls -al /bin/ping
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27140 2006-12-19 21:35 /bin/ping

is WRONG. ping must have the SUID-flag!

$ sudo chmod u+s /bin/ping

$ ls -al /bin/ping
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 27140 2006-12-19 21:35 /bin/ping

Now it works again

Since an update the su command stopped working on my ubuntu system. I always get to error “su: Authentication failure” when typing the right password. Because I need this command, I did following change on my system:

$ ls -al /bin/su
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27140 2006-12-19 21:35 /bin/su

is WRONG. su must have the SUID-flag!

$ sudo chmod u+s /bin/su

$ ls -al /bin/su
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 27140 2006-12-19 21:35 /bin/su

Yea I know there is sudo. But nobody has the right to forbid me using su if I want to.