[maemo-users] Missing OS2008 cmdline apps (was Re: how to install OS2007?)

From: Tuomas Kulve tuomas at kulve.fi
Date: Sun Dec 30 17:03:42 EET 2007
hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:

> That's bizarre.  What security implications are there in ping that would 
> mean it has to be run only by root?  Forcing people to use root when not 
> necessary is itself a security problem.

Ping seems to be setuid root on my debian. So it's run as root here too.

-- 
Tuomas

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