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Date:      Fri, 11 Sep 1998 13:27:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jt <hometeam@techpower.net>
To:        Marc Giannoni <marc@versa.eng.comsat.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dialup PPP
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980911132626.11118A-100000@techpower.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980911123539.marc@versa.eng.comsat.com>

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-r-sr-xr--  1 root  network  143360 Sep  5 13:50 ppp


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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Marc Giannoni wrote:

> All:
> 
> I'm not sure if this issue has been addressed yet, but following the 2.2.5 to
> 2.2.6/7 upgrade, my dialup PPP stopped working.  This seems to be related to
> the new group 'network' assigned to ppp. 
> 
> Since I'm using 'getty' for dialup ppp, my configuration invokes `ppp -direct'.
> This does not run as Joe-Low-Privlege-User, so I changed the permissions for
> "/usr/sbin/ppp".
> 
> before: -r-sr-x---  1 root  network  143360 Feb 25  1998 /usr/sbin/ppp
> ---
> after:  -r-sr-xr-x  1 root  network  143360 Feb 25  1998 /usr/sbin/ppp 
> 
> This may introduce some security problems.  Any suggestions? 
> 
>  
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> Date: 11-Sep-98
> Time: 12:26:33
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