On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > >>good question. and why isn't pppd setuid root? if it's a security issue, > >>a ppp group would be in order. > > > > Personally I find that the diald package is an excellent way of > avoiding this whole issue. However: >
i've been using kerneld (and request-route) to do this for some time now, so it really wasn't an issue. i was merely asking a question (since pppd installs itself setuid root when you build your own). jeff --- Why Linux? source code. POSIX. tcpip. job control. support from the authors. drivers for most hardware. because one terminal or process is never enough. forget the other O/Ss, i use Linux- the choice of a gnu generation.