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Re: [Plug] PPP problems with Debian
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On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Chris Fearnley wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 09:25:33PM -0500, Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote:
> > 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.
>
> You need to add your non-root login name to group dip and probably
> group dialout as well. See vigr(8).
You might want to add them to the adm group so they can run plog -f to
watch it connect.
Chuck
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