Glyn Millington writes: > Now there's a thing! I did all that (and added myself to group > dialout) and when I tried to run "pon" I got this message
> /usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not > setuid-root Looks like a bug in the ppp package (and adding yourself to dialout is irrelevant). > Can you tell me, have I done a BAD THING? You have made it possible for anyone at all to run pppd as root. > And what then is the right way? Pppd should be: -rwsr-x--- root dip -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin