Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

[Mark Kirkwood]

Kent Fredric wrote:
> Passwordless SUDO on an app, or add some sgid/suid bits and do some
> group twiddling on the  apps that do all your magic as root. That
> should at least be a good starting point :)
>

Thanks - but making extra programs setuid root is one of the things I 
really want to avoid, as it creates possibly security backdoors and 
complicates upgrades - e.g. new version of prog gets installed w/o the 
custom setuid bit and its a call to me 'cause 'the internet is broken' :-).

Cheers

Mark
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