ping and suid

[m.w.chang]

I just learnt that ping required suid to work. is  there a non-suid 
version of ping out there? SING, nmap also needed root to run.

under window$, ping.exe can be execuated anytime. I don't know how TCP 
experts look at the difference.

-- 
   .~.    Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. In Linux we trust.
  / v \   news://news.hkpcug.org
/( _ )\  http://www.linux-sxs.org
   ^ ^    2.4.19 5:45pm up 13 days, 19:34, 1 user, load average: 1.08, 
1.05, 1.00