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Re: PPPD error message?
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Moshe Maor wrote:
> I has the same error message a few weeks ago, after installing the new
> RH4.0 and configuring the kernel with ppp as module: a non-root user
> couldn't start pppd. This was fixed after I changed the permissions to
> insmod, as I recall.
1. my problem happend even with pppd compiled into the kernel, the error
message is wrong
2. if you want everyone to run pppd, you need it suid-root!
3. making insmod suid-root and letting anyone run it is one of the DUMBest
kernel security holes I can think of! any user can CHANGE YOUR KERNEL at
RUNTIME?! are you nuts? I hope the system isn't on the net!
4. what are kernel daemons for? kerneld should insmod automatically all by
itself.
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