Hi All, I eventually decided to set up my winmodem (hcfpci) to be able to send/receive faxes and as a backup for when adsl goes down. I noticed that a group called dialout was created: =============================== dialout:x:20:root ===============================
The Dial up Gentoo Wiki says that for security purposes one should create a new ppp group and add those users who will be allowed to dial up. It also suggests to alter the original access rights of /usr/sbin/pppd: =============================== -r-s--x--x 1 root root 238244 Sep 17 08:29 /usr/sbin/pppd =============================== to 4550: =============================== -r-sr-x--- 1 root ppp 238244 Sep 17 08:29 /usr/sbin/pppd =============================== Any idea what the dialout group is there for? Also, when I want to dial up which is the 'right' sequence to bring up: 1) /etc/init.d/hcfpci start 2) /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start or it doesn't matter which one comes up first? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
