No, i dont know of any pppd security risks. sorry. actually, i'm just
running pppd on a single user machine so i havent really even bothered
with the security aspects of pppd.
ali
u wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:57:40 +1000
> From: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: ppp frustrations
>
> Jonathan Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You can only call pppd as root (unless you want to set up some DANGEROUS
> > file permissions).
>
> Do you know of any specific danger involved in having pppd
> setuid-root? If so would you mind telling me the details?
>
> I have spent a fair bit of effort trying to make pppd safe, and AFAIK
> as long as you don't go using the `noauth' option it should be OK.
> (You can use noauth safely in a file under /etc/ppp/peers/ as long as
> you also specify the tty name and connect script in the same file.)
>
> Paul.
>
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