On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Creamy <[email protected]> wrote: > From the pppd man page: > > 1163:.Sh SCRIPTS > 1164-.Nm > 1165-invokes scripts at various stages in its processing which can be > 1166-used to perform site-specific ancillary processing. > 1167-These scripts are usually shell scripts, but could be executable code > files > 1168-instead. > 1169-.Nm > 1170-does not wait for the scripts to finish. > 1171-The scripts are executed as root (with the real and effective user ID > set to 0), > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > No, they are not. Which is wrong, the man page, or the behavior of pppd?
some history: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=123494734721801 ... from 2009. yikes :) --patrick
