On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:38:07PM -0600, RBE wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > On Sunday 24 November 2002 5:00 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > > On 11/24/02 14:41, DragonsFireBurns wrote: > > > "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > > > > > >>Which user are you trying to run pppd as? The perms that you have > > >>will only work for root, unless you change it to: > > >>-r-sr-xr-x (4555) > Maybe this is in error, but to run pppd, shouldn't the root user have > 'x' priviledges?
The "s" means "setUID", which means that it runs with the UID of the owner, in this case, root, regardless of who executes it. Kurt _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
