setuid on OSX about fping

[schweikert]

It should be possible to avoid the setuid requirement by using ICMP DGRAM sockets on Mac OSX:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man4/icmp.4.html

I am not developing myself on a Mac, so help from a Mac developer would be nice.

[2bits]

Closing this to lower the issue count. Someday everyone will have a mac, and this can be reopened :-)

[schweikert]

I appreciate it, but I think that this issue is best left open. It doesn't disturb me and so it isn't hidden.

[2bits]

Ok go for it. I don't have permissions.

[jdowning]

@schweikert I installed fping with homebrew which uses the following options:

Downloading http://fping.org/dist/fping-3.6.tar.gz
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/fping/3.6
make install

However, I can't seem to run it as an unprivileged user despite 0ab66f8 fixing that issue.

~ $ fping google.com
fping: can't create raw socket (must run as root?) : Operation not permitted

Any ideas?

[schweikert]

That's because 0ab66f8 is not part of release 3.6 (but will be in 3.7)

[jdowning]

Excellent! Thanks for the clarification (and quick reply!). 😄

[schweikert]

Note that fping 3.7 with non-root support for Mac OS X is now released.

[jdowning]

@schweikert Thanks again!!

[schweikert]

@justindowning: please use fping 3.8 instead. there is a bug with loop mode in fping 3.7