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Re: [Plug] PPP problems with Debian
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Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote:
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> I've gotten my ppp connection set up perfectly with Debian, except
> that I can't figure out how to use it without having root access.
> pppd is suid, I've given read permission to the dialup scripts, rw to
> the ttyS1, and still, all pppd does is exit when I run pon. This is
> not a problem from root.
>
> I'm running 2.1, with pppd 2.3.5. Thanks in advance.
>
Check your syslog file (usually /var/log/messages.) The only time I have
seen pppd needing to be run as root (with suid root) is when I attempted
to use the name option. pppd logged a message saying the only root can
use the name option.
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