If your C program binary is setuid root, i really don't understand why it should not work. but maybe you should trys the redhat way to enable users to launch ppp (under linuxconf), it will mostly make pppd setuid root too ... Or you should debug all this. replace pppd with a shell script of yourself displaying informations like the result of the command "id". do the same to ppp-on ... and trace where the euid=root thing disappear (if it does...) pascal -----Original Message----- From: je11y292 [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: suid?ppp question Hi folks, here's my little problem: When I wanted to start a ppp connection with my isp, I executed a little C program that started the ppp-on script. This program was suid root, so I was able to start the connection as a regular user. Yesterday, a friend gave me a red hat 6.0 disk, so I decided to upgrade from 5.2 . Now, whenever I try to execute the c program to connect to my isp, it doesn't work. May 24 23:09:15 localhost kernel: PPP line discipline registered. May 24 23:09:15 localhost kernel: registered device ppp0 May 24 23:09:15 localhost pppd[435]: pppd 2.3.7 started by aurora, uid 500 May 24 23:09:15 localhost pppd[435]: Failed to open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied May 24 23:09:15 localhost pppd[435]: Exit. Now if I run this program as root, it works fine. So I'm confused. If this program was really running with root privelages, I wouldn't have this problem, right? I've connected to my isp this way for the past 2 months or so with redhat 5.0 and redhat 5.2, so what could have happened yesterday with the install of 6.0? _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
