[H-GEN] pppd

[Ross Camm]

I have heard of these security problems re suid, and when changing the
scripts didn't seem to work, i chmod back to the default settings. 

 The system is at home, in a secure enviroment, and I just want to let the
missus dial up without having her login as root each time....although thats
what she still has to do.....as i havn't worked this one out yet...

As I understand it to use netcfg...i need X installed....I have ppp up and
running on a similar system for all users....but it has X. 
	

			Rossco
At 06:21 PM 16-01-98 +1000, you wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Anthony Towns wrote:
>
>> > The scripts are in /etc/ppp/scripts, they are all readable by
everyone, and
>> > trying chmod u+s to the scripts doen't seem to work.
>> 
>> I've read that suid scripts are a security hole, and thus
>> Linux/bash/something doesn't do anything with suid shell scripts.
>
>In some old systems, one could press Ctrl+C to interrupt /bin/sh while it
>was running a SUID script and be left with an interactive suid shell. (!)
<snip>
>expect to be SUID should be set so.
>
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