Re: Must pppd be run by root?

To: Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
Cc: Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>, Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>, Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Must pppd be run by root?
From: Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca
Date: Tue, 14 May 96 22:13 EDT
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  Craig> The ppp package should have a 'ppp' group, pppd should be owned by
  Craig> root.ppp and it should be mode 1750.

Can we make that "dialout", please? Something already present and used by (at
least) dip and efax.

--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

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