Simon writes:
> The group thing's easy enough to resolve, so what ought the permissions
> to be?
pppd should be
-rwsr-xr--1 root dip218524 Sep 29 07:00 /usr/sbin/pppd
(I was wrong: you _do_ want the 's').
> when that file [/etc/ppp/oprions] has permissions
> -rw-r--r--1 ro
Simon writes:
> shouldn't that 's' be sufficient?
It's unnecssary and undesireable. However, the group should be 'dip'. How
did it get to be 'src'?
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John Hasler
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Elmwood, Wisconsin
John Hasler wrote:
>
> Simon writes
> > I tried just adding users through the appropriate bit of pppconfig, and I
> > far as I can tell, it's successfully added them to the 'dip' group. BUT,
> > when I run pon as a non-root user I get the message...
>
> Did you log the non-root users out and back
Steffen Evers writes:
> Maybe setting /usr/sbin/pppd to setuid root helps.
This should not be necessary.
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John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 16:02, Simon R Tod wrote:
> seems to happen. There must be a dead easy way of doing... if I jsut
> download the .deb file from an ftp site where do I stick it, how do I
> unpack, install and compile it? Is there something even easier?
unpack and install for downloaded packag
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 16:02, Simon R Tod wrote:
> I've just been using pppd via pon / poff from root ever since I set
> things up with pppconfig, but now that I want to add other users to the
> system I need a way of giving users access. I tried just adding users
> through the appropriate bit of
Simon writes
> I tried just adding users through the appropriate bit of pppconfig, and I
> far as I can tell, it's successfully added them to the 'dip' group. BUT,
> when I run pon as a non-root user I get the message...
Did you log the non-root users out and back in? You must do so for the
chang
I've just been using pppd via pon / poff from root ever since I set
things up with pppconfig, but now that I want to add other users to the
system I need a way of giving users access. I tried just adding users
through the appropriate bit of pppconfig, and I far as I can tell, it's
successfully adde
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