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juiceme is offline juiceme
2018-06-01 , 11:19
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
In finland everybody has unlimited flat rate plans
Really? No prepaid services, then? I have never used anything other than a prepaid SIM in my entire life.

Well that's how it is.
I kind of *know* that there are prepaid sims. but I have never used one. Or held one in my hand. (I have seen those in sale though, in shops but never bothered to buy one)
Those are mostly used by gangsters and drug-dealers to hide their identity...


Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Noticed that ping no longer worked for nemo user.
That's how it is on the N900 too. I never understood the rationale behind it. Why is ping so sensitive it needs root?
Well ping itself is not that sensitive, the thing it needs is raw socket access which kind of is a sensitive issue

The correct way to do it would be to use setcap to add just cap_net_raw to /bin/ping or even better, use filesystem ACL to give the correct capabilities-per-user to the binary.
Assigning user to net_raw is an overkill IMHO but miles better than the ancient make-ping-seuid-root-kludge
 

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