On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:15:55AM +0000, Creamy 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? >
my understanding is the behaviour is wrong (as already pointed out in this thread). stuart henderson has asked for some feedback on a diff but seemingly received none. so until this issue is cleared up, i've amended the man page. jmc
