[plug] Debian newbie question re:permissions

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, sol wrote:

> /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.

By default pppd on Debian is 4750 (the 4 signifying suid) but whenever you
use "chgrp" the suid bit is automatically dropped, which is why it started
giving that error after running chgrp.

 - Matt