On my dial in connection I have mgetty listening to answer the RING from
the modem, the user authenticates and then pppd is called, but the
connection fails and the log shows that the failure is either because the
user is not root or pppd is not suid.
When I suid pppd it all works.
Now I am not too happy about suid pppd, is it a security hole?
How can I over come the problem otherwise?
How come the suid that I put on pppd last time this happened got wiped off
when I rebooted this box. (It's RH6.2)
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Howard.
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