From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 11 10:22:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00316 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:22:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from techpower.net (techpower.net [205.133.231.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00243 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:22:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Received: from localhost (hometeam@localhost) by techpower.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA11165; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 13:27:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 13:27:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Jt Reply-To: Jt To: Marc Giannoni cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dialup PPP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG try: -r-sr-xr-- 1 root network 143360 Sep 5 13:50 ppp hometeam@techpower.net --We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd-- On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Marc Giannoni wrote: > All: > > I'm not sure if this issue has been addressed yet, but following the 2.2.5 to > 2.2.6/7 upgrade, my dialup PPP stopped working. This seems to be related to > the new group 'network' assigned to ppp. > > Since I'm using 'getty' for dialup ppp, my configuration invokes `ppp -direct'. > This does not run as Joe-Low-Privlege-User, so I changed the permissions for > "/usr/sbin/ppp". > > before: -r-sr-x--- 1 root network 143360 Feb 25 1998 /usr/sbin/ppp > --- > after: -r-sr-xr-x 1 root network 143360 Feb 25 1998 /usr/sbin/ppp > > This may introduce some security problems. Any suggestions? > > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: Marc Giannoni > Date: 11-Sep-98 > Time: 12:26:33 > > This message was sent by XF-Mail > ---------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message