[Techtalk] wvdial, pppd, and permissions insanity

[Akkana Peck]

Carla Schroder writes:
[Debian]
> -rwsr-xr--  1 root dip 232536 Dec 30  2004 /usr/sbin/pppd
[CentOS]
> -r-x-xr-x 1 root root 250996 Feb 21  2005 /usr/sbin/pppd
[ ... ]
> To get wvdial and wvdialconf to work I have to  chmod 4755 (ooo suid, what a 
> good idea :P.) Assigning groups doesn't matter- for example, putting wvdial 

I notice on Debian you have pppd as setuid, but on CentOS you don't
(you seem to have dropped a character from your CentOS ls -l, but
it it's that character, it's the one after it). Have you tried that?

(I also wondered what the difference was between group dip and group
dialout on Debian, but I guess it doesn't matter since pppd sets the
uid to root, not the gid to dip.)

	...Akkana