[CentOS] Ping as regular user not allowed (CentOS Stream 8)

Wed Jan 19 19:58:57 UTC 2022
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 19.01.22 um 15:44 schrieb Brian Stinson:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 8:33 AM Toralf Lund <toralf.lund at pgs.com> wrote:
>>
>> Following some update or the other (I think) on my CentOS Stream 8
>> system, I'm no longer able to use ping as a regular user; I get
>>
>> $ ping www.centos.org
>> ping: socket: Operation not permitted
>>
>> Does anyone else see this? It it a bug, or were the system/default
>> permissions deliberately changed? Can anyone suggest a fix/workaround?
>> Actually, I can find several different ones via a simple web search, but
>> they are generally related to other distributions, I'm not quite sure
>> which would be the most appropriate for CentOS...
>>


I also noticed this "change".


> 
> Folks interested in this issue can watch this bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2037807
> 
> We're waiting for systemd-239-55.el8 sources to show up after which we
> will build this and publish to CentOS Stream. Right now this appears
> to be an infrastructure issue and the appropriate folks are working on
> that, but we also want this package to pass the proper checks before
> we build.
> 


Is this a regression of the last systemd update?

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Leon