Re: Dial to the Internet as User

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

karlp ourldsfamily com wrote:
> 
> Does anyone else know about adding a regular user to the uucp group?

It shouldn't really be dangerous to add yourself to uucp.
Adding other users probably isn't too dangerous either, if you can
reasonably trust these users.  I suppose ideally you could work out
the precise permissions needed and create a separate "ppp" group,
although I do not believe the uucp group has access to much as it is.
It might be worth your time to do a find and check just what.

I haven't used modems under Linux in years, so my information is
likely far out of date, but I thought many people found they needed
pppd to be setuid-root and then only let "ppp" group users run it.
Honestly, adding yourself to "uucp" may be a better approach.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com