I came across an issue with trying to use the ping command after I installed the latest SparkyLinux (A Debian based distro). It would only work when run as sudo, but I got an error, “missing cap_net_raw+p” when run as a normal user. After some digging, I found the solution on a blog post at ShallowSky.com. https://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/ping-permissions.html
The fix? Install linux-sysctl-defaults then reboot your machine.
I would have never figured this one out without the help of ShallowSky.com.
