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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news2.acs.oakland.edu!news.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!tribune.meitca.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Setting up a PPP server for FreeBSD Date: 27 Jun 1996 20:44:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4qurqr$9p@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4qd7bd$3m8@natasha.rmii.com> <4qe31l$ha5@innocence.interface-business.de> <4qnjmn$rku@natasha.rmii.com> <4qr0fq$c51@innocence.interface-business.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22341 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1178 I wrote: > #!/usr/bin/suidperl Use at your own risk, watch out for the latest CERT advisory! If you think it's too much a risk for you to have suidperl, make the _actual_ user UID 0, and change the script to relinguish its root privileges when they are no longer needed. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)