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Date:      Sat, 27 Jun 1998 13:37:01 +0400
From:      Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
To:        njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart)
Cc:        Dmitrij Tejblum <dt@FreeBSD.ORG>, jose@nobody.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/7070 
Message-ID:  <199806270937.NAA01697@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jun 1998 03:05:02 BST." <E0ypkMQ-00060L-00@oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk> 

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Niall Smart wrote:
> On Jun 26,  8:06am, Dmitrij Tejblum wrote:
> } Subject: Re: bin/7070
> > Synopsis: pppd not setuid root
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
> > State-Changed-By: dt
> > State-Changed-When: Fri Jun 26 08:03:33 PDT 1998
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > Fixed in src/usr.sbin/pppd/Makefile rev 1.4.2.2
> 
> Fixed eh?  

Yeah. It always was setuid, and Peter obviously didn't want to change 
it. -stable is not the place to introduce changes, you know. If you 
think that the permissions are wrong, let's discuss it on some mailing 
such as -security or -current, first. Or fill a PR. I don't have strong 
opinion on this, I just fixed a -stable breakage.

> So why is pppd setuid?

To allow non-root users to dial out, I think. Perhaps, to allow 
non-root users to dial in. 

Dima



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