Hi: We have setup a few linux dial in server for our clients. In one place, the server also doubles as a dial out server. The dial in and dial out server are connected to two different modems (one on COM1 and one on COM2). Dial in works using the "login" authentication. When modem connection is established, the server throws up the "login:" prompt and user logs in using his account. Then at the prompt, she types in "ppp" (which is aliased to run pppd with certain parameters). This establishes the PPP connection between server and client. All these are taken from the HOWTO and the HOWTO states that "pppd" must be suid root so that ordinary users can also execute PPP. The problem we are having is that in this particular instance, where we have both (dial in and dial out) servers, the permissions of "pppd" gets reset to 755 even though we had initially set it to rwsr-xr-x. Because of this dial in server does not work and user has to change the permissions to make it work. The server is untouched (nobody works on the server as such), so we rule out user problems. What we want to know is if anybody has encountered similar problems (where permissions are changed automagically)? Thanks for your response in advance, -Krishnan. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out http://lists.linux-india.org/
