On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, David Huecking wrote:
This affect is not very strange. It's normal for SuSE-Linux. They do correct the ownership and chmod-bits according to /etc/permissions*. e.g. a "grep sbin/pppd /etc/permissions*"
Right.
So we see that only when using the easy permissions pppd is set SUID for the group dialout and a dialout could be triggered for name resolution by a normal user in the group dialout.
No, because user nobody didn't "trigger" any dialout. The host is permanently online! It's just that one user gets name resolution the other doesn't. Using IP addresses works always fine. Not strange? What sense does it make to disallow name resolution when every other aspect of networking is still fine??? Pretty strange to me.
All in all this has nothing to to with ping itself...
That was just an example.
Everything clear now?! ;-)
How 'bout a definite "maybe"? 8) Michael