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From: Jerry A! <jerry@thehutt.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [Re: [gentoo-dev] Permissions to dial out ?]
Date: Wed Jul 11 02:56:02 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010711045445.A6856@gemini.thehutt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010711084121.21506.qmail@aw162.netaddress.usa.net>; from lakicsv@usa.net on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:41:21AM +0100

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:41:21AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote:
: Thanks Jerry,
: 
: I will look into it (the suid issue) tonight when I get home.
: 
: BTW I use wvdial and kppp, both has this issue.

Aren't those both frontends to pppd?  What happens when you try to
fire-up pppd as a user and not as root?  Also, do you have pppd
listening for incoming connections at the same time that you're trying
to dial out?

Just some more stuff to try out.

        --Jerry

name:  Jerry Alexandratos         ||  Open-Source software isn't a
phone: 703.599.6023               ||  matter of life or death...
email: jerry@thehutt.org          ||  ...It's much more important
                                  ||  than that!



  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-11  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-11  2:43 [Re: [gentoo-dev] Permissions to dial out ?] Viktor Lakics
2001-07-11  2:56 ` Jerry A! [this message]
2001-07-11 14:31   ` [gentoo-dev] Devfs permissions ?! [was:Permissions " Viktor Lakics
2001-07-11 16:02     ` Terje Kvernes
2001-07-12 10:34     ` Daniel Robbins

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