בשבת, 16 באוגוסט 2003, 21:25, Steffen Barszus כתב:
> Am Samstag, 16. August 2003 19:13 schrieb Olivier Blin:
> > Hi
> >
> > kppp has root suid, is it really necessary ?
> > pppd has already root suid, shouldn't it be be enough ?
>
> pppd setuid root => pppd has access to all files it needs as well as
> devices and is able to set the route
> kppp setuid root => using pppd as you were root, needed since using pppd as
> user you have only limited access to pppd. you can only dial with
> peerscripts and not set priviliged options. So kppp not running setuid root
> would result in not beeing able to use it at all.
>
> Steffen
but if kppp is run as normal user, and then it invokes pppd which is suid
root, then pppd will become root no?
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- diego
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