Hello,
I would like for a user to be able to use the /usr/sbin/pppd command ..
this is so that the user can
connect to the internet via a modem using custum scripts. Now .. when i
am logged in as user and I
issue the command ./usr/sbin/pppd i get the following error: ./pppd:
must be root to run ./pppd, since it
is not setuid-root. Now, i have tried giving the user permission to
execute the pppd command using
chmod 555 .. but I can still not execute the command as the user. I
then tried to create a group by
editing the /etc/passwd file and the /etc/group giving both root and the
user permission to execute this
file .. i then changed the group for the file by typing in the following
command: chgrp .newgroup
pppd .. i still could not execute the pppd as user .. i then tried chgrp
newgroup .newgroup pppd .. i still
could not execute pppd. I do have linuxconf installed on my system ..
now after i had changed the
group settings manually and then started linuxconf .. when i went to
exit linuxconf it said that it
wanted to set the group settings for pppd back to root.root. Is there
some sort of file that linuxconf
keeps that is overriding what i am doing .. or am i doing somehthing
wrong???
any help would be greatly appreciated =)
