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Re: kexpress better than krn?



On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Roberto Alsina wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Kevin Forge wrote:
> 
> > If you are insane enogh 
> > to make something suid root then do that for a script like "fetchmynews"
> > and have KPPP execute that on conect ( no nead for entering a password
> > each time ).  Of course the script wold just say
> > 
> > fetchnews
> 
> Last I checked linux didn't let you use suid scripts.

With good reason, suid scripts are really dumb. 

You need to either use sudo, or just make kppp SUID ( though I think maybe
it is out of the box )

-- 
Donovan