Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-24 Thread Philippe Brochard
On 23-Nov-2001 Neal H Walfield wrote: >> I don't know if that works, because now I'm not abble to just use wget or >> lynx. > > This is what you are getting when you use diald or when you connect > using straight ppp? > > Try starting with something a bit more simple, for instance, pinging > you

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-24 Thread Niels Möller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: > > > 3. Is there a reasonable way to give a user additional uid:s > >automatically at login? > > No, but perhaps there should be. One way to do it might be analogous to supplimentary groups: Have a

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 1. Has anybody thought about partial delegation of networking? Does > >>that make sense at all? > > > > I have some vague ideas. I think it does make sense, but making it > > work seems hard. But if someone prods me, then I can describe my > >

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No, but perhaps there should be. > > In fact, it is on the TODO list: > > * Currently libshouldbeinlibc (idvec, etc) and password.defs > and login all think there is one user per-uid, and that > ain't necessarily so. Ne

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Neal H Walfield
> I don't know if that works, because now I'm not abble to just use wget or > lynx. This is what you are getting when you use diald or when you connect using straight ppp? Try starting with something a bit more simple, for instance, pinging your gateway. Then, move on to pinging a host on the ne

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Philippe Brochard
On 23-Nov-2001 Anders Jackson wrote: > philippe brochard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...] > >> That works! >> >> >> PS1: Like I don't find docs on this subjet (only messages), I'll >> >> very happy to make one or include one in a FAQ. (But I have to >> >> understand what to do) >> > >

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Neal H Walfield
>> 1. Has anybody thought about partial delegation of networking? Does >>that make sense at all? > > I have some vague ideas. I think it does make sense, but making it > work seems hard. But if someone prods me, then I can describe my > vague ideas. Prod, prod. >> 3. Is there a reasonable w

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Philippe Brochard
On 22-Nov-2001 Niels Möller wrote: > philippe brochard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> but I think it's a good thing if we can run it with an unprivileged user. > > I'm not sure if there's any sensible way to delegate control over just > some parts of the networking (e.g different network inter

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: > 1. Has anybody thought about partial delegation of networking? Does >that make sense at all? I have some vague ideas. I think it does make sense, but making it work seems hard. But if someone prods me, then I can describe my vague ideas. > 3. Is t

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-22 Thread Anders Jackson
philippe brochard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > That works! > > >> PS1: Like I don't find docs on this subjet (only messages), I'll > >> very happy to make one or include one in a FAQ. (But I have to > >> understand what to do) > > > > One of the problems is that I do not have a modem a

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-22 Thread Niels Möller
philippe brochard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but I think it's a good thing if we can run it with an unprivileged user. I'm not sure if there's any sensible way to delegate control over just some parts of the networking (e.g different network interfaces), but until someone comes up with a good

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-22 Thread philippe brochard
On 22-Nov-2001 Neal H Walfield wrote: >> I've try with other labels than 'ondemand' and with other devices >> (original /dev/cuaa1 -> /dev/ttyS0, /dev/tty00, /dev/tty01) >> but I always got the same errors. > > Try /dev/com0. > Thanks, that works >> So, can I connect my GNU/Hurd box to the net

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-22 Thread Neal H Walfield
> I've try with other labels than 'ondemand' and with other devices > (original /dev/cuaa1 -> /dev/ttyS0, /dev/tty00, /dev/tty01) > but I always got the same errors. Try /dev/com0. > So, can I connect my GNU/Hurd box to the net with an ISP ? Connecting should not be a problem. However, once you

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-21 Thread Phil Brochard
On 21-Nov-2001 Neal H Walfield wrote: >> But I have a little probleme: I can't make a device /dev/tun0 (or N) >> with ./MAKEDEV tun0 in /dev like it's said in the ppp man pages. > > Well, the man pages are BSD centric. In the Hurd, pfinet will > automatically create the tunnel device for you. J

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-21 Thread Neal H Walfield
> But I have a little probleme: I can't make a device /dev/tun0 (or N) > with ./MAKEDEV tun0 in /dev like it's said in the ppp man pages. Well, the man pages are BSD centric. In the Hurd, pfinet will automatically create the tunnel device for you. Just run settrans -acpfg /servers/socke

um-ppp installation

2001-11-20 Thread phil brochard
Hello, I'm a new user of the Hurd, and I try to use ppp to connect to the net. But I have a little probleme: I can't make a device /dev/tun0 (or N) with ./MAKEDEV tun0 in /dev like it's said in the ppp man pages. So, I try to rebuild the gnumach with the option: pseudo-device tun 0 in the config