The following is a slightly edited bash session of a kppp installation (a reinstallation to be sure):
***BEGIN BASH SESSION*** debian:/home/penguin# apt-get install --reinstall kppp Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/375kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 30031 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kppp 4:2.0.1-0.potato1 (using .../kppp_2.0.1-0.potato1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement kppp ... Setting up kppp (2.0.1-0.potato1) ... debian:/home/penguin# which kppp | xargs ls -all -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root /usr/bin/kppp debian:/home/penguin# which pppd | xargs ls -all -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip /usr/sbin/pppd ***END BASH SESSION*** In /etc/ppp/options, I also needed to set "auth" to "noauth." On Saturday 13 January 2001 07:28, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > there are sever "out of the box" problems with the 2.0.1 version of > kppp... The 2.1 should either work currently out of the box (the > latest version that is) or will in the next version. > > If it does not currently it should only be due to a option in > /etc/ppp/options that kppp requires..(forget which one)... > > if this isnt' the case then I need to know what's broken so I can > fix it. > > The perms on kppp should be: > > -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 438012 Jan 7 01:08 > /usr/bin/kppp > > which should reflect pppd's: > > -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 207836 Aug 7 06:46 > /usr/sbin/pppd > > > Ivan > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 06:46:32AM +0800, csj wrote: > > Don't get me wrong. I have managed to make kppp work. But that's > > after I copied the permissions and other fiddly stuff from my > > Mandrake installation. > > > > My questions: Is this normal? Or is my installation somehow > > non-standard that the installation script gets confused? Are > > there any particular reasons (security issues, perhaps) why kppp > > doesn't come "pre-configured" at install time? > > > > Can someone post his/her permissions on the following files > > (slightly edited bash output under LM 7.2)? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] penguin]# which kppp | xargs ls -all > > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root /usr/bin/kppp > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] penguin]# which pppd | xargs ls -all > > -rwsr-xr-t 1 root root /usr/sbin/pppd > > > > Also I would appreciate the output of someone's working ppp > > options file. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] penguin]# egrep -v '#|^ *$' /etc/ppp/options > > lock > > noauth > > noipdefault > > usepeerdns > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---end quoted text---
