[plug] Debian newbie question re:permissions

[Simon Scott]

	Set you permissions on /etc/options to 700

	set pppd to setuid root

	See what happens. And no, options should not be readable by anyone
but root, AFAIK.





	From:	sol <solhanna at dingoblue.net.au> on 16/10/2001 12:19 PM
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	Subject:	Re: [plug] Debian newbie question re:permissions

	I chmod'ed both /usr/sbin/pppd and /etc/ppp/options to 777 (isn't it
a 
	no-no to leave configuration files with open permissions, especially
if 
	they contain passwords?) and we must be making progress because I
got a 
	different error message:
	/usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not 
	setuid-root

	This came after I chgrp'ed /usr/sbin/pppd from dip to dialout also.

	Sol


	Greg Mildenhall wrote:

	> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, sol wrote:
	> 
	>> my guess (based on the error message) is that it's
/etc/ppp/options is
	>> the sticking point. (Present permissions are set to 733)
	> 
	> 733 is unreadable except by the owner.
	> 
	> -Greg
	> 
	> 
	> 
	> 






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