From jose@nobody.org Thu Jun 25 12:12:25 1998 Received: from mail3.mailsorter.net (mail3.mailsorter.net [209.132.10.33] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06561 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:12:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jose@nobody.org) Received: from nohow.demon.co.uk ([212.228.18.189]) by mail3.mailsorter.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with ESMTP id AAA13354 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:11:31 -0700 Received: (from jose@localhost) by nohow.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07734; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:11:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jose) Message-Id: <199806251911.UAA07734@nohow.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:11:22 +0100 (BST) From: Jose Marques Reply-To: jose@nobody.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: pppd not setuid root X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 7070 >Category: bin >Synopsis: pppd not setuid root >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 25 12:20:01 PDT 1998 >Closed-Date: Fri Jun 26 08:03:33 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: Fri Jun 26 08:06:10 PDT 1998 >Originator: Jose Marques >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386 >Organization: none >Environment: FreeBSD-stable, last cvsup circa 12:00 25/06/98, make world performed on the same day. >Description: Running "pppd" non-root brings up the message that pppd is not setuid root >How-To-Repeat: Type "pppd" as any user that isn't root >Fix: Make "pppd" setuid root again? Perhaps the install script is broken? Sorry, I'm not a good enough Unix person to know. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) To: jose@nobody.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: bin/7070: pppd not setuid root Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:00:24 +0100 On Jun 25, 8:11pm, Jose Marques wrote: } Subject: bin/7070: pppd not setuid root > > Running "pppd" non-root brings up the message that pppd is not setuid > root I'm not aware of any good reasons to make pppd suid root. Though it has been written with this in mind I don't think if offers any advantages over the potential security problems. Niall State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: dt State-Changed-When: Fri Jun 26 08:03:33 PDT 1998 State-Changed-Why: Fixed in src/usr.sbin/pppd/Makefile rev 1.4.2.2 >Unformatted: