Non-root users are unable to ping
Issue
- When logged in as the root user we are able to execute the
ping
command. If we change to a non-root (standard) user and execute theping
command it fails with errorping: socket: Operation not permitted.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.5 and earlier (including RHEL 7, 6, 5)
ping
command fromiputils
package
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