Hi, Since discussing this in private resulted in me doing something stupid, I'll Cc: this to the list (all comments welcome).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > pppd is not just a dialout tool but also used to allow dialin. The > group dip has been designed for that purpose (dialup ip). > > A user might be a member of the dip group and thus allowed dialin > access but he is not allowed to initiate an outgoing connection and > thus not a member of dialout. That scheme will not work anymore with > your setup. I agree with this. [ Erik, you said that the documentation refers to dialout, rather than dip. Please submit a bug report. ] In the mean time 2.2.0f-27 will be the same thing as 2.2.0f-25 (i.e. with pppd belonging to dip), unless someone comes up with a good reason for this not being the case. > I would also > suggest to disable IPX by default. Dialin users could be surprised to > have access to corporate LAN resources. Negotiation with a Win95 > client gets much more complex with IPX enabled. Similar issues are > valid for dialout. > > It is customary to expect TCP/IP connectivity from Unix boxes but > Novell Networking is something optional not regular. Absolutely --- The default /etc/ppp/options file disables IPX. Are you saying that this is not enough, and the user should have to recompile pppd to get the IPX functionality? How about if I make the default for IPX to be off in the executable ? I think that people should be able to do this easily if they want, since it means that Debian can do everything that NT RAS can do. Cheers, Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
