Re: Root Permissions

[Tim Lloyd <lloydt Colorado EDU>]

I'm having fun learning about not doing everything as root, myself.  So
far, to fix those two problems, I've done a chmod u+s /sbin/pppd to set
pppd SUID root, and chmod a+r /dev/cdrom to give all users CD-ROM access
(cause RedHat somehow figures that only root would want CD-ROM access).
So far, so good.  Now I just have to figure out a good way to network my
PC and my laptop with either a null modem or null printer cable...

Tim Lloyd, omaha@tmbg.org

> So, running GNOME with a non-root user is hard, and need certain adjustment...And running from ROOT is not safe, as all us known. I found some major problems:
> - pppd: cannot call if not set SUID from non-root users
> - CDROM: on RH 5.2 the device linked by /dev/cdrom is NON-readable from the world