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[André <andre.dahlqvist@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can confirm this. This only affects Ubuntu Eee; on my regular Ubuntu
8.04.1 ping is already setuid root.

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ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276337
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Status in Ubuntu Eee: New

Bug description:
Unable to ping as user in "Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1"
The /bin/ping executable has the SUID-bit unset.
Solved with:

sudo chmod u+s /bin/ping