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Originally posted by tigerflag
I got pppd working once i figured out where to set it up. Now i have another question about user permissions.
pppd wants me to be root. I know I can change that and I'll figure out how. I don't like to go online as root. But I have to be root to run Swaret, too.
I can su to root to run pppd and Swaret, but isn't it risky to be online for hours like that when Swaret is downloading stuff?
Can I change the group for Swaret so that I can use it as a user, but have it download stuff to /var/swaret instead of to my /home?
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It's a non-issue. Linux
is multi-user, and whether you like it or not some services/apps require root priviledges.
Swaret and pppd won't be the only apps running under root priviledges... try running
ps -ef | grep root to see what I mean