It *does* have to do with the dialout group, at least on my system (maybe due
to harden_suse and the "secure" permission stuff)?

Please try a ping as user nobody and look if it works. For me, it does *only*
if nobody is part of the dialout group. The second I delete nobody from
dialout (/etc/group), it doesn't any longer.

Maybe someone from the SuSE team can explain this? To be honest, I don't
understand how (and where) this works myself. Should be interesting! =8,

Thanks,
Michael

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
> * Michael Seewald wrote on Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 22:13 +0200:
> > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Michael Seewald wrote:
> > > Before the update "ping www.heise.de" as "nobody" gave me the ping of that
> > > host. Now, this is no longer the case: "ping: unknown host www.spiegel.de".
> > > However, every other user can do the ping. (Network is up, of course!)
> > >
> > /etc/group - dialout - I got it, sorry for asking.
>
> What the heck ping has to do with dialout?!

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