Quoting from chapter 11 of the PPP HowTo
(http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO-11.html):
"If users other than root are to set up PPP connections, the pppd program
should be setuid root :-
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 95225 Jul 11 00:27 /usr/sbin/pppd
"If /usr/sbin/pppd is not set up this way, then as root issue the command:-
chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
"What this does is make pppd run with root privileges even if the binary is
run by an ordinary user. This allows a normal user to run pppd with the
necessary privileges to set up the network interfaces and the kernel routing
table."
There are some additional details, but you can consult the HowTo directly
for them.
At 11:39 AM 2/7/99 -0600, Andrew R. Brink wrote:
>Hello Everyone-
> I want to set permissions on my box so that i can stop using root to
>connect to my isp and get ppp up and running.....becuase i know being
>root all the time is a "horrible" thing to do.
> So what permissions do i need to set on pppd, etc?
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