John Hasler wrote: > Setuid root also makes it possible for the secrets > files to be readable only by root, and for pppd to use the serial ports > without the user having access to them. Pppd drops root privileges as soon > as it doesn't need them.
So root can give users on the system access to a PPP connection without letting them know, what the user name and password for that account is. Makes sense, although it's not aplicable to my situation, because I can't use PAP/CHAP and it wouldn't work with a chat script. MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/
