Is ping only supposed to work for admin accounts?

[Brian Mathis]

Yes.  Ping needs admin rights in all operating systems, but they have
various ways to allow access, such as running suid in unix or using a
special API call on Windows.  If you need ping from cygwin, it's best
to rely on the Windows version without installing the cygwin one.

~ Brian

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Ray Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just used the cygwin installer to install ping-1.0.2-1.tar.xz but it
> doesn't work for limited user accounts:
>
> $ ping google.com
> ping: socket: Operation not permitted
>
>   149   29930 [main] ping 11668 dup_ent: duping protoent "icmp", 0xD56580
>    46   29976 [main] ping 11668 dup_ent: protoent icmp 0x80039F64 0x1
>    21   29997 [main] ping 11668 dup_ent: duped protoent "icmp", 0x80039F50
>    21   30018 [main] ping 11668 cygwin_socket: socket (2, 3 (flags 0x0), 1)
> --- Process 11668 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WSHTCPIP.DLL at 73BB0000
>  1084   31102 [main] ping 11668 __set_errno: void
> __set_winsock_errno(const char*, int):235 setting errno 1
>    37   31139 [main] ping 11668 __set_winsock_errno: cygwin_socket:694
> - winsock error 10013 -> errno 1
>    57   31196 [main] ping 11668 cygwin_socket: -1 = socket(2, 3 (flags
> 0x0), 1), errno 1
>
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