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Re: looking for console based ppp dialer



"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@bfr.co.il> writes:

> You call it with "pppd call gsm" as root. If you don't want to do it
> as root, look at sudo. 

Or chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd. According to all the docs I've seen to
this moment pppd is intended to be suid root. Red Hat does not have
the suid bit on by default, I don't know what other distros have.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldsh@NOSPAM.netvision.net.il> 
"... We work but wit, and not by witchcraft;
 And wit depends on dilatory time." [Shakespeare]

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