>>One could make the uid of the account zero to achieve this without
>>making pppd setuid, though I can imagine this making people jump up
>>and down about security - can anyone think of an attack on this?
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>If the user figures a way to change their shell, you're dead.
Quite so. Similarly if th
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> >>good question. and why isn't pppd setuid root? if it's a security issue,
> >>a ppp group would be in order.
> >
>
> Personally I find that the diald package is an excellent way of
> avoiding this whole issue. However:
>
i've been using kerne
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