David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Martin Schulze wrote:
> 
> > There are reasons users install it setuid / setgid, and these installations
> > are vulnerable.
> 
> I disagree.  There is absolutely *no* reason to install rp-pppoe
> setuid-root.  It is normally invoked by pppd, and pppd must be either
> invoked by root or setuid-root itself.  Could you name a scenario in
> which a setuid-root rp-pppoe is needed?

Please talk to the Debian maintainer of rp-pppoe since pppoe is installed
root.dip and setuid in Debian sarge and sid.  The maintainer can be reached
through [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Details about this package can be found
here: http://packages.debian.org/pppoe

Regards,

        Joey

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