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Re: DSA 557-1 and CAN-2004-0564



On Oct 06, Max Vozeler <max@hinterhof.net> wrote:

> It would make it possible for /usr/sbin/pppoe to get rid of setuid root
> and still work for unprivileged users. Marco, how does this look to you?
> Would you consider including such an option in ppp?
I think I'm missing something. What's wrong with pppoe being setuid?

Anyway, pppoe is deprecated and superseded by the kernel-space driver,
so I'm not much interested in hacking pppd for its benefit.

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Marco | [8379 dux/WPU3PAhRs]



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