Re: permissions of /etc/ppp
Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> wrote:
> * Andreas Metzler [Sun, Nov 17 2002, 01:10:12PM]:
>> About 20 packages include /etc/ppp/ in the deb and (probably) all
>> except pppd include it as root:root 755. If somebody installs one of
>> these packages (including ipppd and pppoe) before ppp the directory is
>> owned as root:root 755 instead of the permissions suggested by the
>> ppp-package.
> I assume that all of them depend on ppp,
No. Most of them don't have a reason to.
> and so ppp is installed first with the root.dip permissions.
No.
> So not a real problem here.
No.
Be aware that you do not even need ppp to gain profit from
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/, ipppd and pppoe also evaluate these files.
cu andreas
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