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Re: PPPD error message?
On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Ira Abramov wrote:
> 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!
Hmmm, after a second though, that's what I did...
> 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!
Don't worry, it's not ;-) and talking about security holls - I have dozens
of them...
> 4. what are kernel daemons for? kerneld should insmod automatically all by
> itself.
Of course it does, unless there is a permission problem which interferes in
the process of the "auto" insmod. I did'nt say I run insmod every time...
>
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