Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 02:31:13 +1000 (EST) From: michael butler <imb@asstdc.com.au> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routed supports variable-length netmasks? Message-ID: <199608161631.CAA00665@walkabout.asstdc.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199608161532.JAA06486@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Aug 16, 96 09:32:15 am"
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> /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down are run as root, no matter who the > login user is. This also means you must be careful what you put in > there, but since the environment is safeguarded pretty well it would be > hard to break into a system via them. It would be much better if .. i) pppd refused to run any 'world' writable script and .. ii) syslogged the reason for not running it, michael
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