On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:23:46AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> You should be able to use pppd without any root privilege (and withjout
> setuid), by making sure that user using it has correect write and read
> permissions to the /dev devices used.

Doesn't pppd need to modify network interfaces (like ppp0) and
manipulate the routing table?  I would think that simply having write
permissions on the appropriate serial devices would be insufficient, but
it's been a while since I've done dialup, so I could be mistaken.

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