Re: [Plug] PPP problems with Debian

[Andrew Libby <alibby@voicenet.com>]

Consider:

Under redhat, I use sudo for ppp.  I have my unprivliged uid able
to execute any command as root, and then I have menu items in 
fvwm which basicly run a custom ppp script (shell script) as root. 
It has been working well for about a year now.

Andy

On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 03:36:34AM +0000, Martin DiViaio wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> 
> 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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