Re: PPP problems with the Debian 2.2
Glyn Millington writes:
> Now there's a thing! I did all that (and added myself to group
> dialout) and when I tried to run "pon" I got this message
> /usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not
> setuid-root
Looks like a bug in the ppp package (and adding yourself to dialout is
irrelevant).
> Can you tell me, have I done a BAD THING?
You have made it possible for anyone at all to run pppd as root.
> And what then is the right way?
Pppd should be:
-rwsr-x--- root dip
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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