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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Setting up a PPP server for FreeBSD
Date: 27 Jun 1996 20:44:11 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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I wrote:

> #!/usr/bin/suidperl

Use at your own risk, watch out for the latest CERT advisory!

If you think it's too much a risk for you to have suidperl, make the
_actual_ user UID 0, and change the script to relinguish its root
privileges when they are no longer needed.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)