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To: Chuck <crtb@capecod.net>
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Subject: Re: pppd 
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 14:58:48 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> I have a script, /usr/local/bin/pppgo, which dials my ISP via pppd.
> Everything works except one thing.  When the line drops (the ISP
> kills the line), ip-down runs, just as ip-up ran when connection
> was first made.  It attempts to "route delete $IP" and the like,
> but always gets:
> 
> route: must be root to alter routing table: Permission denied
> 
> even though TFM tells me that ip-down is run as root!  After all,
> pppd is setuid root.
> Any ideas?
[.....]

Well, with ppp, any shell commands in the config files are run as the 
user that invoked ppp rather than as God.  I would think pppd is the 
same.  Without this "feature", anyone can create their own config 
files or run ppp interactively and do what they want.

I don't think you can create your own pppd config files, but you can 
pass what you want to connect/disconnect on the command line.

>         Chuck Bacon -- crtb@capecod.net
>                 ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY

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