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PPP and root Privileges

9.6. PPP and root Privileges

As establishing a PPP link between you Linux computer and another PPP server requires manipulation of network devices (the PPP interface is a network interface) and the kernel routing table, pppd requires root privileges.

For details on this, see section Chapter 14.

 

 
 
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