Re: i386/575

[Julian Fondren <julian@imaji.net>]

then why is it in /sbin?



On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Marco S Hyman wrote:

> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 12:32:07 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Marco S Hyman <marc@cvs.openbsd.org>
> To: julian@imaji.net, marc@cvs.openbsd.org, bugs@cvs.openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: i386/575
> 
> Synopsis: despite being in /sbin (security reasons?) ping is a+x
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
> State-Changed-By: marc
> State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 15 12:30:16 MDT 1998
> State-Changed-Why: 
> ping is supposed to be executable by all.  The concern regarding
> ping -f is unfounded.  As the man page says: Only root can do a flood ping.
>