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ICMP requires root privilege?

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Hondy

Hondy

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Mar 3, 2003
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Hi

I'm using Cacti which is a monitoring tool, it says "ICMP requires root privileges"

How can I grant root privileges to ICMP?

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Is that configured using your iptables (or whatever firewall you are using)?

IMHO ICMP should by default be available for other users as well! Not only root!

Regards,
Khalid
 
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hi,
ICMP is the protocol used by ping and traceroute (tracert).

Does this package (Cacti) make an user for its use ?
Has this user root privileges ?

ciao
vit
 
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