Hi,
I'm curious about why privileges are revoked before executing
ip-{up,down} scripts?
"ROUTING" section of pppd(8) says:
+--- pppd(8)
| When IPCP negotiation is completed successfully,
| pppd will inform the kernel of the local and remote
| IP addresses ... to create a host route to the remote
| end ... which will enable the peers to exchange IP
| packets. Communication with other machines generally
| requires further modification to routing tables. In
| most cases the defaultroute [is] sufficient for this,
| but in some cases further intervention is required.
| The /etc/ppp/ip-up script can be used for this.
+-
However, if ip-up is to change the routing table it will require
root privilege.
Am I missing something?
--patrick
