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Re: permissions of /etc/ppp



On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:23:21PM +0100, Eduard Bloch 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

> I assume that all of them depend on ppp, and so ppp is installed first
> with the root.dip permissions. So not a real problem here.

Not at all.  Many (I imagine most) of them are packages which include
scripts for running when connections come up and down in order to work
better with intermittent connections rather than packages which are only
useful with PPP.

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