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From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart)
Subject: Re: bin/7070: pppd not setuid root
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The following reply was made to PR bin/7070; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart)
To: jose@nobody.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/7070: pppd not setuid root
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:00:24 +0100

 On Jun 25,  8:11pm, Jose Marques wrote:
 } Subject: bin/7070: pppd not setuid root
 > 
 > 	Running "pppd" non-root brings up the message that pppd is not setuid
 >         root
 
 I'm not aware of any good reasons to make pppd suid root.  Though it has
 been written with this in mind I don't think if offers any advantages
 over the potential security problems.
 
 Niall

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