From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H1fx7-000654-Mc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:29:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l029Pget024878; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 09:25:42 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l029M3q2000521 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 09:22:03 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so4806518ugc for ; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:22:03 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=rNIl00U6M7rUIVWVWq6lRHU6le3Ojdyvk4d2DmLxTi8hmIrFBpqi1LIRJDow644jKZDOz66++0/EdKMlFpkcBYuNX7p7zMfGblXjPtjCf+6s3Wx9q7JkEdBGB8ct3XtYKcN2/hmOk0thJ98DXZmDVIGKfFtyVBMM7IqWw57/L7I= Received: by 10.67.97.18 with SMTP id z18mr25398355ugl.1167729723219; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:22:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy ( [86.140.42.138]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id k30sm5880022ugc.2007.01.02.01.22.02; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:22:02 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:24:00 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <459735C2.7040705@paradise.net.nz> <8cd1ed20612311139p56f2fce1xcc581eb17e6c2dfc@mail.gmail.com> <459837AE.8070906@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <459837AE.8070906@paradise.net.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1434991.mJkL1epix7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200701020824.02917.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6beede71-6925-4349-ab78-0cd27d804f40 X-Archives-Hash: a3e72e7cacf0c51b1afcc1636e58d239 --nextPart1434991.mJkL1epix7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 31 December 2006 22:20, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Kent Fredric wrote: > > Passwordless SUDO on an app, or add some sgid/suid bits and do some > > group twiddling on the apps that do all your magic as root. That > > should at least be a good starting point :) > > Thanks - but making extra programs setuid root is one of the things I > really want to avoid, as it creates possibly security backdoors and > complicates upgrades - e.g. new version of prog gets installed w/o the > custom setuid bit and its a call to me 'cause 'the internet is broken' :-= ). Isn't it simply a matter of adding her username to the dialout group=20 in /etc/group? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1434991.mJkL1epix7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFmhai5Fp0QerLYPcRAlP1AKCcoWrqPkGh1jRxOFB/1wI8jWcFDQCfcIUJ Dkgy97zYoOrAqImDCsQYJmI= =IIFc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1434991.mJkL1epix7-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list