Ping command

aladdin · #1 (**permalink**) 12-05-2006

Hello Everybody:
Im the root of the system, I need to grant some limited priviliges user an acess to the ping command so he can ping some IPs with his script.
should I add the command to his path??
or what??
Thanks a lot

DukeNuke2 · #2 (**permalink**) 12-05-2006

every user can use ping afaik.... let him use the whole path to the "ping" command in his script!

PING=/usr/sbin/ping (path in solaris)
and then use
$PING hostname/ip

Darwin_ · #3 (**permalink**) 12-05-2006

Everyone can use ping. A user always (with appropriate permissions) can execute binaries with specifying the
absolute path, even if the binary is not in his PATH. e.g /usr/sbin/ping, except for when he's jailed in a restricted shell.

Then he would get something like

bash: /usr/sbin/ping: restricted: cannot specify `/' in command names

Besides that, special privileges can be given to users with "sudo", but in case of ping, thats not necessary.

Darwin

aladdin · #4 (**permalink**) 12-05-2006

Thanks guys
I added the /usr/sbin to the path variable in his profile, and it worked.

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