Chuck Peters on Thu, 3 Jun 1999 04:52:40 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] PPP problems with Debian


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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