Hia Marco andf Russell,
tahnk you very much for your help. Well, I checked out and changed all
permissions as it should be. The environment is now as follows:
1. /usr/sbin/pppd is now set 0475 with owner root:dip
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 269156 28. Nov 2008 /usr/sbin/pppd
2. The normal user
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote:
/usr/sbin/pppd: using the noauth option requires root privileges
This message was the reason for my very first report. What did I miss? Is
there something else I should check?
The man page gives some information on this. If
Hello debian-team,
I checked, that /dev/ppp is set to 600 with owner root:root.
IMO this is not a good idea. IMOI this might be cause a security hole, because
applications, which are using /dev/ppp also must be run as root. I think, for
a normal and unexperienbced user it is no good idea, to
On Jul 17, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote:
applications, which are using /dev/ppp also must be run as root. I think, for
We have group dip to manage access to programs which can start network
connections.
Normal users, which are allowed to dial out, should be added to group
[Marco d'Itri]
We have group dip to manage access to programs which can start
network connections.
How does this interact with policykit? I was told that policykit uses
ACLs to grant device access to those that should have it, but have not
verified that it is true. Mentioning it here to see
Am Samstag, 17. Juli 2010 schrieb Marco d'Itri:
On Jul 17, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote:
applications, which are using /dev/ppp also must be run as root. I think,
for
We have group dip to manage access to programs which can start network
connections.
Sorry. if I am wrong,
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 09:45:52PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Normal users, which are allowed to dial out, should be added to group
dialout by root. Device /dev/ppp should be set to 660, and owner
root:dialout.
You should read: /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.html
dialout
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote:
Sorry. if I am wrong, I am not very well experienced with the required
access rights. The background of my report is, that I tried to start the
application umtsmon (a dialout application for 3g-modems) as a normal
user, and I
On Jul 17, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote:
[Marco d'Itri]
We have group dip to manage access to programs which can start
network connections.
How does this interact with policykit? I was told that policykit uses
It does not.
ACLs to grant device access to those that should
On Jul 17, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote:
Sorry. if I am wrong, I am not very well experienced with the required access
rights. The background of my report is, that I tried to start the application
umtsmon (a dialout application for 3g-modems) as a normal user, and I found
no
Am Sonntag, 18. Juli 2010 schrieb Marco d'Itri:
Maybe this program needs to be modified to use a suid helper or a
daemon which interacts with the hardware.
But I can't see why it would need access to /dev/ppp.
Marco,
this problem is tellling: cant get access to /dev/ppp when it is started
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote:
Is it corrrect, what russel told, that /usr/sbin/pppd should be set to
rwxsrxr-x root:dip ?
It should not be set to 04755 unless you want everyone on the system to be
able to run it - which probably isn't what you desire.
On my
On Jul 18, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote:
Mine is set to rwxr-xr-x root:root, although it is installed by default (I
didn't change anything).
I highly doubt it. This is how it is installed on Debian systems:
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 269540 Jul 26 2008 /usr/sbin/pppd*
--
ciao,
Am Sonntag, 18. Juli 2010 schrieben Sie:
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote:
Is it corrrect, what russel told, that /usr/sbin/pppd should be set to
rwxsrxr-x root:dip ?
It should not be set to 04755 unless you want everyone on the system to be
able to run it -
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