Rationale behind the groups "dip" and "dialout"
Hi there,
I recently configured PPP and everything works well. However, I do have
a question:
In the standard Debian (slink) install, the groups "dip" and "dialout"
are created.
dialout is used for dialout-devices (eg /dev/ttyS*, /dev/isdn*, ...)
while dip is used for a couple of pppd files (/etc/ppp/*,
/usr/sbin/pppd, ...).
What's the reason behind that policy?
And a side note: Wasn't it possible to configure pppd not to be setuid
root? I think I read that somewhere, but I can't find it in the
PPP-HOWTO.
MfG, Viktor
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