ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (resend)

[Kai Blin]

On Monday 09 February 2009 17:29:19 IneedAname wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:35:20 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>
> James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Yes, there are legit reasons to run as root, one of them is the now
> > famous ICMP 'Ping' unavailability issue in Linux.  Experts know about
> > this and how to work around it.  Newbies, used to Windows and how it
> > works, just figure that this is restricted to administrators, and switch
> > to root to get around it.  The proper command, as I have learned through
> > years of UNIX administration, is 'su -' but newbies don't know this and
> > most just use 'su'.
>
> Can you point me at a guide for using ICMP 'Ping' without root?
> Sorry for being a noob.

You want to look at POSIX capabilities. I keep forgetting which one gives 
access to raw sockets. Google will know.

Cheers,
Kai

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