[plug] Debian newbie question re:permissions

[Craig Ringer]

sol wrote:

> 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 

Permissions for config files should usually be left on 644 (or 600 for 
things like /etc/shadow). This transates to -rw-r--r--

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