Kevin Brosius on Mon, 10 Apr 2000 08:24:14 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] suid root ppp-down


> 
> Assuming ppp-down is a shell script, I'm pretty sure shell scripts can't
> be setuid-root with Linux.. try using a C program or something like sudo
> should work..
> 
>         --Barry
> 

Which probably means you can hack around it by setting ppp suid... 
(you'll most likely find ppp is the executable which ppp-down runs.) 
I've seen some recommendations against doing it this way for security
reasons, but it ought to work.

-- 
Kevin Brosius

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