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

Fri Jan 21 15:11:17 UTC 2022
Toralf Lund <toralf.lund at pgs.com>

On 21/01/2022 15:23, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 1/21/22 07:53, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 1/21/22 07:17, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> On 1/21/22 05:01, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
>>>> Am 20.01.22 um 23:14 schrieb Johnny Hughes:
>>>>> On 1/20/22 15:07, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/20/22 12:46, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>>>>> On 1/19/22 08:44, Brian Stinson wrote:
>>>>>>>> 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 
>>>>>>>>> https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.centos.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Ctoralf.lund%40pgs.com%7C713021a8ffd245d07c2408d9dce99575%7C51d05d6147e9480b93b298dc84f1ed06%7C0%7C0%7C637783718111185241%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=R2YZ8lVdkjaXenlaFn6wdRPu9fRgERWl2EaEHMApPCc%3D&reserved=0
>>>>>>>>> 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...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - Toralf
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Folks interested in this issue can watch this bugzilla:
>>>>>>>> https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.redhat.com%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D2037807&data=04%7C01%7Ctoralf.lund%40pgs.com%7C713021a8ffd245d07c2408d9dce99575%7C51d05d6147e9480b93b298dc84f1ed06%7C0%7C0%7C637783718111185241%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=p2Ym5q6fUiNWSCjBEZbI1l3nf005mRy7aZ27jMlggUU%3D&reserved=0 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am doing a compose with this version of systemd in it right 
>>>>>>> now. Should be released later today.
>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OK .. I am currently releasing an 8-stream compose with 
>>>>>> systemd-239-55.el8 .. but it does not fix this unpriv ping issue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I checked internally and it is also a problem on the rhel build 
>>>>>> for this systemd version, so not an issue introduced by the 
>>>>>> CentOS Stream build.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This  version of systemd should be available in a couple hours on 
>>>>>> mirror.centos.org.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> OK .. to fix this issue until we get a build that fixes it:
>>>>>
>>>>> Edit /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-default.conf
>>>>>
>>>>> take out the minus sign (-) in this line:
>>>>>
>>>>> -net.ipv4.ping_group_range = 0 2147483647
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is this "minus" a typo? I guess ...
>>>>
>>>> While yum update i get:
>>>>
>>>> Couldn't write '0 2147483647' to '-net/ipv4/ping_group_range', 
>>>> ignoring: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> I do not know if it is a typo or not (maybe a functionality I don't 
>>> know about) .. but if I remove the dash and save the file, 
>>> everything works as expected.
>>>
>>> It is the only option in that file with a dash.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> OK .. the minus sign is intentional .. but the functionality to mkae 
>> it work is not yet in the packages.  See this bug for details:
>>
>> https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.redhat.com%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D2037807&data=04%7C01%7Ctoralf.lund%40pgs.com%7C713021a8ffd245d07c2408d9dce99575%7C51d05d6147e9480b93b298dc84f1ed06%7C0%7C0%7C637783718111185241%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=p2Ym5q6fUiNWSCjBEZbI1l3nf005mRy7aZ27jMlggUU%3D&reserved=0 
>>
>
> So the two fixes are to not upgrade iputils and exclude it in your dnf 
> config .. OR .. to take out he minus sign until the issue is fixed.
Both work for me. Thanks.
>
> Or live with suod/root only for ping

Might also be OK for a short while. Irritation would probably build up 
over time ;-)

- Toralf


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