[LUG] setuid-root

[Kai Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to get pppd to be able to run for a given user, in
convience.

[bu@xxxxxxxxx bu]$ /usr/sbin/pppd
/usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not
setuid-root

Can anyone help me by telling me how I get around this ?

[bu@xxxxxxxxx bu]$ ls -al /usr/sbin/pppd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     dialout    213202 Jul 22 10:22 /usr/sbin/pppd
[bu@xxxxxxxxx bu]$ su
Password:
[root@xxxxxxxxx bu]# chown 777 /usr/sbin/pppd
[root@xxxxxxxxx bu]# exit
exit
[bu@xxxxxxxxx bu]$ /usr/sbin/pppd
/usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not
setuid-root
[bu@xxxxxxxxx bu]$


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