RDUMP - socket permission problem

[Wolfgang Rupprecht]

In article <211 at chip.UUCP> mparker at chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker) writes: 
>In my zeal to properly protect files in my UNIX system, I seem to
>have caused /etc/rdump to stop working.  A similar problem happens
>when I do /etc/ping to another site.  A note here is that /etc/ping
>will work correctly when executed as ROOT.  Question, what did I
>break and how do I fix it?

How about a set-UID shell script to let users run these programs? ;-)

-wolfgang

PS. Serious hint: 
  22 -rwsr-xr-x  1 root     staff       22528 Jan  2  1988 /etc/ping
  49 -rwsr-sr-x  1 root     staff       50176 Jan  2  1988 /etc/rdump
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Wolfgang Rupprecht	ARPA:  wolfgang at mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114)
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