Re: Problem with Redhat 6.0

[smooge redhat com (Steve Smoogen)]

THat is probably the solution, but just the usual warnings that we dont
ship pppd with setuid due to potential security problems (I am not sure
the Linux Security Audit Team has looked at pppd yet)

The way that netcfg and usernet get around this is setting a "flag" in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 

DEVICE="ppp0"
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no

change USERCTL to 

USERCTL=yes 

and usernet can bring up and down the link. I dont think Preston
(resident KDE fellow) had time to work any wrapper logic into kppp for
users to use this method.



On 30 Apr 1999 15:26:13 -0400, Balaji Ramani
<balajir research nj nec com> wrote: 
>Hi Royce,
>
>Just set the SUID bit for pppd by
>
># chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
>
>Balaji
>
>On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Royce Teo wrote:
>
>> Another 6.0 problem: when I create a new user, I can't start kppp under the
>> new user's account. The message was something like "ppd binaries not
>> installed with SUID bit". So I have to su root, start control-panel and
>> activate ppp0 from network configuration. Haven't had this problem with kde
>> in the mandrake distribution with users other than root.
>> 
>> Any help would be most welcomed.
>> 
>> rt
>
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