-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 25 November 2002 3:07 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: > 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.
I understand, but have run into some programs that wouldn't work that way (don't understand why). - -- Robert Black Eagle The more I understand, the less I know. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE94vSntjSYKkYJrmcRAuMeAJ0aDRift1GgHRaQlVD2sR+aHlAvLgCfUgPq KlaXhN0uk/0KyQtPzFJowMw= =lyzZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
