topic Re: Ping errors in Operating System - HP-UX

Ping errors

George E. Holland_1 — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:31:35 GMT

Using HP-UX 11i. when trying to ping from any user execpt root recive error message
"ping: socket: not owner". Permissions check out as 555.

Re: Ping errors

Michael Tully — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:36:15 GMT

The ping executable must set as below (4555)

-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 36864 Nov 14 2001 /usr/sbin/ping

Re: Ping errors

George E. Holland_1 — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:44:47 GMT

Mike.
Changed permissions to 4555. Same problem.

Re: Ping errors

Michael Tully — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:52:37 GMT

Check to see how many 'ping' files there are:

# which ping

# find / -name ping -print
(make sure /etc/ping is a sym link to /usr/sbin/ping)

Also check for aliases

I did the exact same test, changed a ping executable mode and reproduced your problem. Changed it back and it was fine.

Re: Ping errors

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:56:28 GMT

You need to also make absolutely certain that the ping executable is owned by root otherwise the setuid will have not su to root.

Re: Ping errors

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:56:37 GMT

You need to also make absolutely certain that the ping executable is owned by root otherwise the setuid will not su to root.

Re: Ping errors

George E. Holland_1 — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:09:19 GMT

Mike.
What I ended up doing was to copy ping to a temp file remove the file and replace it with copy. IT WORKS. Thanks for the help