Do we really need to be root to simply to a ping from your WSL on Windows?
Apparently yes.
You have probably faced the following error:
text
ping: socktype: SOCK_RAW
ping: socket: Operation not permitted
ping: => missing cap_net_raw+p capability or setuid?
Wanna fix it?
sh
sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep /bin/ping
Run this command once, and the command ping will be "usable" again ;)
Happy ping'ing! ;-)