On Sun, 12 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote: > >>>>> "R" == Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > R> pppd has to do various messing around creating network interfaces > R> and so on, so running it as (not root) is a bit of a non-starter. > R> Why do you want it to be able to run it not as root?
two words: DIAL-IN USERS > Right, pppd really needs to be run as root. You don't want just any > user killing your net connection. If you want to let a selected set > of users bring the net connection up and down, check out sudo. It's > designed for this. This permissions problem just cost me over $44 (australian dollars). I upgraded pppd on the dialin machine at work on Friday night. Forgot to change the permissions on pppd to make it owned by root.ppp, perms=1750. When the line dropped out from my home machine to my work machine at 5am the next morning, my home system automatically dialed in to re-establish the link. Logged in OK, ran pppd. The connection dropped again because it didn't have the right perms. My system then proceeded to call every 2 minutes, until I got home and stopped it at about 11am. A local call here in Australia costs 25 cents. An expensive mistake. The postinst for ppp package SHOULD ask if permissions on /usr/sbin/pppd should be changed. Craig
