Hi folks, here's my little problem:
When I wanted to start a ppp connection with my isp, I executed a little C
program that started the ppp-on script. This program was suid root, so I was
able to start the connection as a regular user. Yesterday, a friend gave me
a red hat 6.0 disk, so I decided to upgrade from 5.2 . Now, whenever I try
to execute the c program to connect to my isp, it doesn't work.
May 24 23:09:15 localhost kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
May 24 23:09:15 localhost kernel: registered device ppp0
May 24 23:09:15 localhost pppd[435]: pppd 2.3.7 started by aurora, uid 500
May 24 23:09:15 localhost pppd[435]: Failed to open /dev/ttyS0: Permission
denied
May 24 23:09:15 localhost pppd[435]: Exit.
Now if I run this program as root, it works fine. So I'm confused. If this
program was really running with root privelages, I wouldn't have this
problem, right? I've connected to my isp this way for the past 2 months or
so with redhat 5.0 and redhat 5.2, so what could have happened yesterday
with the install of 6.0?
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