Date sent: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 18:15:16 -0000 (GMT)
Send reply to: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: permissions for ppp
>
> On 07-Feb-99 Ray Olszewski wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If this is a problem, you can make a group 'ppp' and then change the
> ownership of the pppd executable to root.ppp and then put the users
> allowed to use PPP in that group. If you cange the group ownership of the
> pppd file, you will need to make it suid root once more (changing the
> group ownership will remove the suid bit, that's why).
>
> --
> Andrew
Hi team,
somehow I have managed to set up debian 2 add a 2.2.1 kernel and
configure an XBFi740 server to work as root but I cannot get anything to
run as a user under X, with limited permissions for everything else.
AFAIK this is not a good thing. I think I have also read enabling suid for
my user(me) isn't good either as it presents security problems. I get a
line stating openconsole configured as root only. Can anyone help?
TIA,
Mike
