Matthias Holschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After successful installation of the ppp software and my modem I am faced
>with the following problem: I want to open the ppp connection as a non
>root user and use internet programs like netscape, telnet, ftp ... .
>For the moment I have two possibilities to do so.
>1) I can as normal user use minicom to log into the remote ppp server. Now
>leaving minicom without killing the daemon pppd I can use my connection.
>2) as root I can lance the ppp-on script in the background and I am set.
>I would like to be able to lance as normal user some script that does all
>the dialing in for me and sets up the ppp connection readt to use some
>internet applications. In particular I do not want to communicate my login
>and password for the ppp server to all normal users.
Several months ago, I had to upgrade my PPP daemon for some forgotten
reason, and I ran into the same difficulty. I examined the source, and
determined that the daemon would not initiate a connection unless the
person running the program was root--really and truly root, not just
setuid root. So, I just commented out the portion of the code that
performed the check; it was easy to find and looked something like the
following:
if (getuid() != 0)
restricted_mode = 1;
Then I recompiled, reinstalled, and all was well. That's the beauty of
free software.
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