On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
>Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:02:47 +0800
>From: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Subject: Re: let /usr/sbin/pppd be executed by only one specific user...
>
>> I need to set up a situation where I don't want to suid the pppd
>> binary, yet I want to allow one (and only one) specific user
>> (besides root) to be able to run pppd (in this case from a serial
>> terminal login). And, apart from the user login, no passwords
>> should be needed to do it (which makes su and sudo unsuitable).
>
>
>pppd is designed to be setuid. Read its documentation.
>
>If you don't like that, write a setuid perl wrapper that verifies that the
>proper person is using it and then execs pppd if it's allowed.
Linux does not allow SUID shell scripts.
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