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From: Jose Marques <jose@nobody.org>
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Subject: pppd not setuid root
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>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:
