Dear Tony:

Thank you for the reply.  Timid newbie that I am, I'll read up on chmod,
chgrp, and so forth, experiment with these commands on a dummy file, and
then see if I can make your suggested changes without totally destroying
my system.

Ron J

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Tony Wasson wrote:

> Ronald Jacobowitz wrote:
> > In Red Hat 7.3, a user trying to launch a ppp connection is first asked
> > to enter the root password.
> >
> > Is it possible to configure the connection (or create a new one) so as
> > not to require this password?
> >
>
> It is possible to do something like this using "setuid root".
>
> First, find the path to your pppd binary.
>    find, locate or whereis may help. Default path is /usr/sbin/pppd
>
> Next, use chmod to turn on setuid root.
>    #chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
>
> Finally, verify permissions (and groups) on your pppd binary
>    #ls -lsa /usr/sbin/pppd
> 228 -rwsr-xr--    1 root     dip        230604 DATE /usr/sbin/pppd
>
> 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.
>
> P.S. Alternately you can use "sudo" to grant this kind of access.
>
> Tony Wasson
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