[techtalk] Permissions kppp?

[Nicole]

I use ppp, but I always sudo to use ppp, i.e. at the command line, type
'sudo pppd' are you can just su to root and then do it. I was under the
impression that it is a bad idea to be able to have any user have
permissions to ppp.  I forget why, I am sure someone told me a while, I am
sure something about security.  Maybe someone else knows?

Nicole

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Sunnanvind wrote:

> What permissions should kppp have?
> Who should be the owner?
> I can dialup as root, but if I try to use kppp as a user, it dials, then the
> ppp deamon "dies unexpectedly".
> I know that this is in the help file, but I've lost that.
> 
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