[SUMMARY]: permission denied on socket

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Thanks to Casper Dik for quick reply, sorry for the slow summary but I have
been on holidays this week.


Casper's reply,
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For ping/.traceroute and such, those need to be set-uid root to work,

For the others, check the permissions on the /dev/ entries for sockets
(/dev/tcp, /dev/tcp6, /dev/udp, /dev/udp6)

Those all need to be mode 666 (but not /dev/ip).
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The problem turned out to be the /dev/udp having the world write removed
restoring that got things working again.
I suspect that running the fix-modes program caused this but analyais with
Casper has verified that I was using the correct verion, must have been a
one off glitch.

Thanks also to Lieven Marchand who suggested permissions on TCP

Here are the correct permissions for networking

/> ls -lL /dev/ip /dev/tcp* /dev/udp*
crw-r--r--   1 root     sys        3,  0 Jun  1 13:58 /dev/ip
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys       42,  0 Jun  1 13:58 /dev/tcp
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys      146,  1 Jun  1 13:58 /dev/tcp6
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys       41,  0 Jun  1 13:58 /dev/udp
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys      145,  1 Jun  1 13:58 /dev/udp6



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Cove [mailto:Richard.Cove@alphawest6.com.au]
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 1:34 PM
To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
Subject: permission denied on socket


I am getting permission denied on socket with any not root user Solaris 8
Ultra 10. I have searched the archives and Sunsolve, but the only mention of
this is this post from Steve Campbell in December. This describes my exact
problems.
Does anyone have any ideas?


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