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Re: PPP doesn't like anyone but root???



Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:

> The whole point of the wrapper script is to prevent users from being able 
> to give any options to pppd (which is where the potential vulnerability
> lies).

Hmm, I wasn't thinking about the fact that the options were a big deal
(but of course they are when you have something like "connect").  I
was mostly just trying to encourage people to avoid a suid pppd.

> call this script '/usr/local/bin/user-pppd', and then enable sudo/super
> access to this script instead of /usr/sbin/pppd.

This is a much better idea.

-- 
Rob


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