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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2013-04-15 16:19:47 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2013-04-15 16:19:47 +0000
commitaab496e655f6f7d7a4248a93862c75c4d3aa057d (patch)
tree4bb075785c2a8fa2f12a763998d47b220523bc54 /usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.8
parent6c4f281c2905197148a7638736a3e5916e5cf857 (diff)
scripts should be run as root, but are not; add a BUGS entry to that
effect, and comment out the text that says they are run as root isue pointed out by creamy
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.8')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.817
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.8 b/usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.8
index 5af0077d01f..e96ab7aa697 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: pppd.8,v 1.39 2012/08/29 18:53:36 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: pppd.8,v 1.40 2013/04/15 16:19:46 jmc Exp $
.\" Id: pppd.8,v 1.27 1998/03/31 04:31:08 paulus Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993-2003 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: August 29 2012 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 15 2013 $
.Dt PPPD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -1168,11 +1168,11 @@ These scripts are usually shell scripts, but could be executable code files
instead.
.Nm
does not wait for the scripts to finish.
-The scripts are executed as root (with the real and effective user ID set to 0),
-so that they can do things such as update routing tables or run
-privileged daemons.
-Be careful that the contents of these scripts do not compromise your system's
-security.
+.\" The scripts are executed as root (with the real and effective user ID set to 0),
+.\" so that they can do things such as update routing tables or run
+.\" privileged daemons.
+.\" Be careful that the contents of these scripts do not compromise your system's
+.\" security.
.Nm
runs the scripts with standard input, output and error redirected to
.Pa /dev/null ,
@@ -1518,3 +1518,6 @@ in one or other implementation.)
.An Paul Mackerras Aq Paul.Mackerras@samba.org ,
based on earlier work by Drew Perkins, Brad Clements, Karl Fox, Greg Christy,
and Brad Parker.
+.Sh BUGS
+Scripts should be run as root,
+but are not.