On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Tony Wasson wrote:

> Next, use chmod to turn on setuid root.
>    #chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd

Which means you trust this software to not be able to be compromised, and
give the user more privileges than they need.

> You may need to add the users who need pppd access to a group. On my
> system, this is the "dip" group. Others use a "ppp" or "dialout" group.

You should be able to use pppd without any root privilege (and withjout
setuid), by making sure that user using it has correect write and read
permissions to the /dev devices used.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/

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