Paul Mackerras

I'm not sure that CAP_NET_RAW is sufficient for everything pppd does. In run_program() there is a setuid(0) call, for instance. Have you tested that scripts such as /etc/ppp/ip-up still get...

I'm not planning to put this in 2.4.9. After that, it could go in if it defaults to off, so the code is there and distros can enable it easily...

It does seem reasonable that with the persist option the first pppd instance would continue to try to bring up its lower layer even when it is a multilink master.

Sorry, I haven't used xl2tpd. I don't know anything about how to configure it. The best I can suggest is to add the 'dump' option to /etc/ppp/options, try to connect,...

Right. I do prefer mailing lists (i.e. the [email protected] list). However, since we're here, do you all think the tree in its current state is releaseable, or are there things...

> @paulusmack: The list is a big mess... What list? The mailing list, or are you referring to some list of patches, or some other list? > Can you look...

> It would be good to move to even autoconf/automake/libtool. Puke. My experience of autoconf/automake has been that their output is verbose, unreadable and undebuggable. For a small project like...

> So going back to the subject: do you have any plans to make new release soon? :) Yes, I would like to make a new release soon. The question...

I propose to release the tree as it currently is (plus updates to README and pppd/patchlevel.h) as ppp-2.4.8 shortly.

I'm going to do another release soon with the CVE fix. I am not going to merge any of the EAP patches for this release, as they are all fairly...