Re: Command syntax to set uid root - please help

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam Trinity Edu>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 06:01:10PM +0100, John Haxby wrote:
> FrankK wrote:
> 
> >What would the command line syntax be to "Set UID" permission on:
> >/usr/sbin/kppp to root?
> >  
> >
> chmod u+s /usr/sbin/kppp
> 
> See "man chmod".
> 
> jch
> 
The above assumes that /usr/sbin/kppp is owned by root. It is my experience that if
you want kppp to be run by a non root user pppd must also be suid root.
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