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Re: Rationale behind the groups "dip" and "dialout"



Viktor writes:
> So root can give users on the system access to a PPP connection without
> letting them know, what the user name and password for that account is.
> Makes sense, although it's not aplicable to my situation, because I can't
> use PAP/CHAP and it wouldn't work with a chat script.

You can, however, give each user her own chatscript and put it in her group
so that only she and root can read it.

Other possibilities:

Use something other than chat to handle the scripted login.

Make chat setuid (preferably to something other than root).
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin


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