Month: December 2012

running cygwin’s “ping” as administrator

I installed Cygwin’s “ping” package and couldn’t run it in a regular mintty due to permissions problems.  I got “ping: socket: Operation not permitted” errors.  But it worked fine if I ran it in a mintty that I’d started with “Run as administrator”.

I searched around a bit and couldn’t find the right answer to my question of “how to run /bin/ping as administrator in a regular terminal window”, and couldn’t get it to work on my own either, but I thought I’d post my work-around, to wit:
alias ping=/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/PING