[techtalk] Permissions kppp?

Kelly Lynn Martin kelly at poverty.bloomington.in.us
Tue Jan 25 12:26:10 EST 2000


On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:22:45 +0100, Sunnanvind <dodsangel at himlen.com> said:


>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.

I've never used kppp but pppd needs to be setuid root (mode 4755,
owner root) to allow users to run it.

Kelly

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