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Home OS Debian

Debian Trixie

Ping doesn't work for 'normal' user

Symptom: ping fails with the following message

$ ping example.org
ping: socktype: SOCK_RAW
ping: socket: Operation not permitted
ping: => missing cap_net_raw+p capability or setuid?

Either (recommended by iputils-ping anyway)

# apt-get install linux-sysctl-defaults

or

# sysctl -w net.ipv4.ping_group_range="0 2147483647"

or

setcap cap_net_raw+p /bin/ping