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To: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
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Subject: Re: Don Croyle: make world failing at ppp install (again) 
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> How about a compile-time option with BIG WARNING FLAGS so that ppp can be
> run in client mode by non-superusers?
> 
> Here's my situation: I don't run ppp in server mode, so the only member of
> group network is my own account.  And my machine isn't networked at the
> moment (and when it is I could change the compilation option back).

Same scenario as me, but ppp isn't the only thing that annoys me in 
this way.  I circumvent all this with a small ``root'' program.  It's 
like sudo without a password that checks for a given user id.  When 
you don't have permission to do something, just prefix the whole 
thing with ``root''.

>  Ben
> 
> "You have your mind on computers, it seems." 
> 

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....


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#
#  Written by brian@awfulhak.org.  This software's free.
#
#  $Id: Makefile,v 1.4 1997/06/17 14:19:01 brian Exp $
#

all: root

GOD=brian

root:	Makefile
	cc -O -DGOD=\"$(GOD)\" -o root root.c
	chown root root
	chmod 4555 root

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/*
 *  Written by brian@awfulhak.org.  This software's free.
 *
 *  $Id: root.c,v 1.3 1997/06/17 00:48:54 brian Exp $
 */
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    if (strcmp(getlogin(), GOD )) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Go away - you're not allowed to be God !\n");
        return 1;
    }

    if (setuid(0)) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Can't become God :(\n");
        return 2;
    }

    if (argc < 2) {
        char *sh;

        sh = getenv("SHELL");
        if (!sh)
            sh = "/bin/sh";
        execlp(sh, sh, NULL);
    } else
        execvp(argv[1], argv+1);

    perror("exec failed");
    return 3;
}

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