Is ping only supposed to work for admin accounts?

[Ray Satiro]

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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