Re: PPP as normal user

[Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

>> "s" == servis  <servis@purdue.edu> writes:

s> poff is just a shell script that will call the kill command. I haven't
s> tried killing pppd from servis since this has worked.  It will take me
s> about an hour to get through the busy lines.  Will this be able to kill
s> the root process? 
s> % ls -l /usr/bin/poff
s> 2 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     dip          1511 Jun 18 19:58 /usr/bin/poff*

I have to admit this setuid stuff puzzeled me.

gtop shows root as owner and still I can signal it. In /proc, it shows
Uid:    1000    0       0       0                                              
Gid:    1000    1000    1000    1000  

(uid 1000 = martin)

But I know too little about this to comment on it.

Someone else?

Ciao,
	Martin