Rick Macdonald writes: >I'm configuring a fresh install of 1.1. I can only start pppd as >root. I found that /etc/ppp had permisions of 700. After changing >that it still can only be run as root. Comparing "strace" output >shows that it may be failing doing an ioctl on /dev/ttyp0. Changing >the permissions of this tty to 666 didn't help. > >Any ideas?
pppd has to do various messing around creating network interfaces and so on, so running it as (not root) is a bit of a non-starter. Why do you want it to be able to run it not as root? The diald package removes all the hassle of starting and shutting down network connections over a transient link, incidentally - you might like to investuigate that. ttfn/rjk
