-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It sounds to me like the following is happening, though I'd have to see the fs to be sure: 1. the binary is run setuid root 2. The binary uses setgid (2) system call to change to the dip group. In that case, ls -l should show something like this: rwsrxrx - -- It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over. (History repeats itself) Joseph C. Lininger Oh alright, here's the *actual* signature... And so it came to pass that on Sun, 28 May 2006, Jude DaShiell said > For debian users at least, as root why not try a small experiment. do > adduser user_name dip then do poff dsl-provider if you use a dsl-provider > file as root. Then exit back to user_name account, then try pon > dsl-provider and notice what happens. Once done as root do deluser > user_name dip and also do adduser user_name root then exit back to > user_name account and try that pon dsl-provider command again and notice > the result. On this computer, it worked with dip but not root so ls maybe > could do with some improvement. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEfimrJ6dqn0mqPbARAgNuAJ0QCTI5wT/m30SxixN5H4ZNEcqq0QCff/uv 81iat6uqCKmURYYjdAGFHsk= =CLjp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
