On Thursday 02 October 2003 17:57, you wrote: > On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:57, you wrote: > > I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added > > myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number > > beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added myself to > > pppusers and dialout too. And the very same message: > > "Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net: Permission > > denied" appears. I did a chown 777 on the whole string of files but > > still the same error message. Yes I am discouraged. Thanks for the help > > and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a shot. I'm out of > > ideas. > > what are the permissions of /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net? Issue ls -l > against the file and post the output.
In addition, post the output of the following command sequence $ whoami ; grep dip /etc/group Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]