Bug 811084

Summary:	Ping loses it capabilities flag
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kevin Clevenger <kevin.clevenger>
Component:	iputils	Assignee:	Jan Synacek <jsynacek>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	jsynacek
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Last Closed:	2012-05-09 11:24:33 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Kevin Clevenger 2012-04-10 03:56:05 UTC

Description of problem:
Ping loses it capabilities somehow. When this happens only root can use ping.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 16 KDE spin

How reproducible:
Not sure.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
getcap /bin/ping = null

Expected results:
getcap /bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep

Additional info:
No idea what's causing this, but it's happened twice so far.

Sorry - not a very helpful report.

Comment 1 Jan Synacek 2012-05-09 11:24:33 UTC

> Sorry - not a very helpful report.

That's true. I'm closing this report.

If you find out how to reliably reproduce the issue, please do reopen and add specific information.