[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Foltz) writes:
> Is it safe to put these lines in the /etc/ppp/ip-up scripts? $6 is passed
> to the script using the ipparam option of pppd and is the name of the
> user initiating the ppp link.
[snip executing file in home]
Since ip-up is executed as root, that depends on exactly how little
security you want.
If you want to do this, you should probably give up root priviliges
before running ~/ip-up. But you can't trust $6 anyway, so you'll need
to get the userid from somewhere else. I use the GID to identify
users in my Perl ip-up script.
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"these are not inherent flaws in [NT] -- they don't happen by accident.
They are the result of deliberate and well-thought-out efforts." - MS
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