Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:24:13 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Charles F. Dillon" <charlesdillon@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, cfdillon@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Is use of PPP shell script neccessary? Message-ID: <20000204172413.A83330@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20000203201726.20873.qmail@web213.mail.yahoo.com>; from charlesdillon@yahoo.com on Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:17:26PM -0800 References: <20000203201726.20873.qmail@web213.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:17:26PM -0800, Charles F. Dillon wrote: > > I was digging in the handbook and found the recommendation for using > a shell script for users to run PPP. I circumvented this via adding > myself(single user machine dynamic IP) to the dialer group, and I can > call ppp freely. Is this "sloppy" or dangerous in any way I should > know about? The results of `find / -group dialer' on my system are some of the /dev/cuaa* nodes, and uucp related files. On a machine that is only used by me, I think this is safe enough. # find / -group dialer /dev/cuaa0 /dev/cuaa1 /dev/tun0 /dev/cuaia0 /dev/cuala0 /dev/cuaia1 /dev/cuala1 /dev/cuaa2 /dev/cuaia2 /dev/cuala2 /dev/cuaa3 /dev/cuaia3 /dev/cuala3 /usr/bin/cu /usr/bin/uustat /usr/bin/tip /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico /var/spool/lock -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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