Re: 3 Questions
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Jeffery S. Coy Jr. wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> good question. and why isn't pppd setuid root? if it's a security issue,
> a ppp group would be in order.
I'd say 'because it doesn't neeed to be' is a good justification.
If you need to have non-root users execute ppp as root, take a look at the
'sudo' or 'super' packages. They allow you to define commands that can be
executed as root by a set of users... without forcing your choice of 'this
should be setuid root' programs on all other Debian users.
Christian
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