Re: kppp & non root users

2002-09-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 09:20:27AM +0200, Craig Main wrote: > I have changed the auth to noauth before I tried to connect...? still no > luck...:( Are you in the 'dialout' group? Or is it the 'dip' group...? -rob pgpndF8nk9Tlb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: kppp & non root users[Bug Report ?]

2002-09-07 Thread Simon Hepburn
tomas p wrote: > AFAI remember if you install ppp, debconf will ask you whether to install > pppd suid. And AFAIK iif you install it suid then you don't need to suid > kppd. No, on my box pppd is SUID, I still experienced the same prob's as Craig. The problem is that kppp_2.2.2-14 ships SUID and

Re: kppp & non root users[Bug Report ?]

2002-09-07 Thread tomas p
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Simon Hepburn wrote: > Craig Main wrote: > > I have changed the auth to noauth before I tried to connect...? still no > > luck...:( > > I experienced the same difficulties when I upgraded to 3.x. Change kppp to be > SUID. See the kppp handbook ( help:/kppp/security-why-suid.ht

Re: kppp & non root users[Bug Report ?]

2002-09-07 Thread Simon Hepburn
Craig Main wrote: > I have changed the auth to noauth before I tried to connect...? still no > luck...:( I experienced the same difficulties when I upgraded to 3.x. Change kppp to be SUID. See the kppp handbook ( help:/kppp/security-why-suid.html ) for an explanation. kppp 3.0.3-1 is shipped SG

Re: kppp & non root users

2002-09-07 Thread tomas p
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Jerry Dimitriou wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I have changed the auth to noauth before I tried to connect...? still no > > luck...:( > > > > Thanks anyway. > > > > Regards > > Craig > > > > as root: > $chgrp dialout /usr/bin/kppp > $chmod 764 /d

Re: kppp & non root users

2002-09-07 Thread Jerry Dimitriou
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I have changed the auth to noauth before I tried to connect...? still no > luck...:( > > Thanks anyway. > > Regards > Craig > as root: $chgrp dialout /usr/bin/kppp $chmod 764 /dev/ttyS0 Assuming that your modem is connected at ttyS0. Obviously thi

Re: kppp & non root users

2002-09-07 Thread Craig Main
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 19:57, Greg C. Madden wrote: > > I think it has to do with the 'auth' option in the /etc/ppp/options > file.You can test by changing the line to 'noauth'. > > # Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network > # packets to be sent or received. > # Please d

Re: kppp & non root users

2002-09-06 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 07:20, Craig Main wrote: > Hi All, > > I need a bit of help here, I am trying to get kppp to work with a normal > user. The user is a member of dialup and dip. Every time the user dials > up I get the following output to the console (I started kppp from > command line): > >

kppp & non root users

2002-09-06 Thread Craig Main
Hi All, I need a bit of help here, I am trying to get kppp to work with a normal user. The user is a member of dialup and dip. Every time the user dials up I get the following output to the console (I started kppp from command line): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/kppp$ kppp Opener: received Se