Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Wed, 15 May 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > OK. This tells sudo that me and root (also me) can execute anything > > on any machine. Also, everyone can execute pppd. You could of course > > clamp this down to a list of users. > > or just have a ppp group and configure sudo to allow users in group ppp > executed /usr/sbin/pppd :-) > > yep, your way of doing things will work. I'm not sure if i like it > though...i'll have to think about the security ramifications of adding > several people to the sudo group. It's brainfood anyway.
I believe that adding them to the group is not a security issue; it's what commands you give them in /etc/sudoers. For just ppp, "ppp ALL=/usr/sbin/pppd" should do it, but I didn't test groups, just usernames. > > For minicom, I confess that I must have set the perms to 666! > > try mgetty rather than getty. it allows both dialin and dialout on the > same line (and can also receive faxes if you want). I've been using mgetty for a year or two, including send/receive fax (on my previous slackware setup). Works fine. -- ...RickM...
