Enabling Normal Non-Root Users to Use Ping in Linux

Enabling Normal Non-Root Users to Use Ping in Linux

 

- Sometimes you just want to ping a remote site or server to test something like your connection:

$ ping google.com

- but get this error:

ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted

- However ping works for the root user, just not non root users. To enable ping for normal users, issue command below as root or use sudo:

# chmod u+s `which ping`

(Those are backticks not single quotes)

 

/or

# chmod u+s /bin/ping

- Now it should work.