[Lazarus] root privileg

Reinier Olislagers reinierolislagers at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 17:10:50 CEST 2014


On 04/06/2014 17:11, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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> 
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> 
>> On 04/06/2014 16:54, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> Why do you need root to ping?
> 
> All ports less than 1024 are only usable by the root user.

By defautl, perhaps. See the rest of my post.

Otherwise, how do you explain this (Debian):
pascaldev at debianlaz:~/papertiger$ whoami
pascaldev
pascaldev at debianlaz:~/papertiger$ ping www.freepascal.org
PING www.freepascal.org (81.82.199.218) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from d5152C7DA.static.telenet.be (81.82.199.218): icmp_seq=1
ttl=51 time=21.5 ms
...





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