From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 19 8:12:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3451F37B404 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:12:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1JGB5S19670; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:11:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:11:05 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge To: Ken Stailey Cc: klh@panix.com, FreeBSD ports list Subject: Re: klh10 and its port submissions Message-ID: <20020219161105.GA19555@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <3C6FC9EF.9040900@surfbest.net> <3C703170.5040502@surfbest.net> <200202180001.g1I01Og20036@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <3C726171.8050603@surfbest.net> <20020219152538.GB17665@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <3C727732.10003@surfbest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C727732.10003@surfbest.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-message-flag: Magic 8-Ball says "Outlook not so good." I'll ask it about Exchange next. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:02:58AM -0500, Ken Stailey wrote: >Alan Eldridge wrote: >> >>Suggest group "wheel" instead. IE you must be able to su to root (at least >>in principle) in order to run it. >> >But Alan: > >kstailey@hermes$ ls -l /usr/sbin/ppp >-r-sr-xr-- 1 root network 307808 Jan 26 08:14 /usr/sbin/ppp > I guess I'm looking at it from the perspective of a *user* running it. Network is a daemon account. Wheel is the group you have to be in to su to root. And since it's a potentially dangerous program, it seemed logical to me to need to be in the "trusted" group to be able to run it. -- Alan Eldridge "Dave's not here, man." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message