Chris White wrote: > On Sunday 18 September 2005 09:38, Mick wrote: >> 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 >> =============================== > > yah, this looks like it sets permissions for the actual dialup scripts. > That said you'll need to be a member of the dialout group.
Okey, dokey. I deleted the ppp group and added myself to dialout: =============================== dialout:x:20:root,michael =============================== >> 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 >> =============================== > > Yup, helps for security. Unless one uses the dialout group for that purpose? >> Any idea what the dialout group is there for? > > See above. OK, but I cannot find 'dialout' in the group access rights of /usr/bin/pppd . . . or anywhere else for that matter. >> 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 > > If hcfpci needs net.ppp0, it will start it for you, visa-versa too. Hmm, it doesn't seem to. I have to start /etc/init.d/hcfpci manually from a root terminal. Thereafter kppp starts the pppd after the call is connected. Another problem I am running into is this: I can only connect and authenticate using one dialup account, all the other ISP modems do not answer the call. It just keeps ringing. Even on the ISP that I can authenticate on, I cannot connect to the internet through them. I cannot ping www.yahoo.com, I cannot connect to a website using a browser, etc. All I can do is ping the IP address of the ISP. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
