[Gllug] Can't connect to the Internet.

[Walid Shaari]

On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 12:37, Dermot Moynihan wrote:

> > chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
> 
> Should that u+s be u+x by any chance?
> With x standing for execute by user.
> I've just gone and got myself Linux in a Nutshell (as I seem to be in for the 
> long haul) and s seems to be "set user (or group) ID".
> By the way, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Just being careful and 
> trying to learn stuff.
> 
> > but do an ls -l on pppd first and check what perms it have
> 
> OK. That gave:
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     dialout    211992 2002-09-09 20:32 pppd
> 

Its u+s .for setuid which means the program will run as root even if it
is called by a no-root user :)


Walid


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