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I am completely new to python, linux RPI and scapy. I am trying to send some packets using scapy.
On Command Line (only if super user privileges are given to scapy)

send(IP(dst="1.2.3.4")/ICMP())

This works perfectly, while running on python script.

from scapy.all import *
p=send(IP(dst="1.2.3.4")/ICMP())

Throws an error 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#19>", line 1, in <module>
    send(IP(dst="1.2.3.4")/ICMP())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/scapy/sendrecv.py",line   255, in send
    __gen_send(conf.L3socket(*args, **kargs), x, inter=inter, loop=loop, count=count,verbose=verbose, realtime=realtime)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/scapy/arch/linux.py", line 326, in __init__
    self.ins = socket.socket(socket.AF_PACKET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.htons(type))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/socket.py", line 123, in __init__
    _socket.socket.__init__(self, family, type, proto, fileno)
PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted<br>

I am trying to solve it but cannot, I am new to the environment therefore don't know much. As far as my search goes this issue is relevant to sockets. But I still need some simple explanation to understand.

Kashif Ahmad
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This means that you need to start your script with sudo/admin rights.

Cukic0d
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    I am aware with this but how to give admin rights within the script that it works fine inside shell? – Kashif Ahmad Jun 02 '17 at 08:43
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    It depends of your OS: if you are on *nix, use `sudo python script.py` on windows, you can start a cmd as admin (explorer) then start your file – Cukic0d Jun 02 '17 at 12:50
  • I don't want to start my file on CLI (by the way its Linux) but I want to run my script directly via shell. If I try to run it using 'sudo' in command line it works fine but whenever I try to run it directly within python shell I cannot do it. I actually do not know, how to give admin or sudo rights within the python script. – Kashif Ahmad Jun 20 '17 at 12:32
  • Because you need to start the python shell with sudo: `sudo python` – Cukic0d Jun 20 '17 at 18:05