From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 11 12:06:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA02711 for current-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 12:06:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from terra.stack.nl (terra.stack.nl [131.155.140.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA02704 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 12:06:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@xaa.stack.nl) Received: from xaa.stack.nl (uucp@localhost) by terra.stack.nl (8.8.7) with UUCP id VAA04867 for current@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:06:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by xaa.stack.nl (8.8.7/8.8.2) id VAA00425; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:05:57 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971011210557.57085@xaa.stack.nl> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:05:57 +0200 From: Mark Huizer To: current@freebsd.org Subject: ppp and uid0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What use is it to make ppp SUID root, if you put a check in it to make sure you are running it as UID 0? :-( Looks like irix this way. And it breaks my nice little ppp-login that will initiate pppconnection as non-root :-( Mark