operation not permitted when attempting to ping

Fri Dec 4 02:08:00 GMT 2009

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 12/03/2009 07:35 PM, Robert Pendell wrote:
>>>> Whenever I use ping it returns the message socket: Operation not
>> permitted.  This only happens if I am not running the shell as an
>> administrator otherwise it works fine..  The windows stock ping
>> command doesn't need admin rights to run.  I am running Windows 7 and
>> cygwin 1.7.  Attached is my cygcheck output.
>> Yep. Known issue.  Actually, the only reason Cygwin still has its own ping
> is
> some people prefer it over the Windows version (and the complaints against
> it have been low volume).  Anyway, this is the long way of saying "That's
> the
> way it works and it's unlikely to change".
>
Ahh... ok. I dug up an old thread on this. Looks like it is a UAC
thing then. Thanks for the info.
Robert Pendell
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