[plug] Debian newbie question re:permissions

[sol]

Eureka! Problem solved. Thanks to Simon, Greg, Brad and Matt for your 
quick assistance.
For those interested, I changed to Brad's modes and tried to setuid to 
root  -which was pointless as Greg pointed out - so I corrected to error 
created when I chgrp'ed pppd (thanks Matt) and chmod a la Greg's last 
post and off it went.
ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd
-rwsr-x---    1 root    dip    183504
This works as my user - and it's secure (relatively speaking).

Thanks again!

Sol

Matt Kemner wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, sol wrote:
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>> /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
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