Re: [Plug] PPP problems with Debian

["Tracy Nelson" <tmnelson@acm.org>]

I had the exact same setup and the exact same problem.  I just fixed it, and
here's what I did (note that not all these steps may be necessary):

1) chmod o+x /etc/ppp    [Lets you read scripts in /etc/ppp]
2) chmod o+x /etc/ppp/peers [Ditto for /etc/ppp/peers]
3) chmod o+r /etc/ppp/peers/provider [Makes provider script readable by
anyone]
4) chmod o+x /etc/chatscripts
5) chmod o+r /etc/chatscripts/provider
6) added my username to adm, dip and dialout groups in /etc/groups [not sure
this was necessary]

Now all I have to do is figure out how to get TkDesk to stop prompting me
for a phone number (we have to use ten-digit dialing, and TkDesk gives me an
arith overflow when I specify the phone number!) and I'll be all set.

Now on to IP masquerading...and sendmail...and fetchmail...and Apache...then
maybe INN...

Cheers!
-- Tracy Nelson
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Peters <cp@linux.ccil.org>
To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Date: Thursday, June 03, 1999 04:56
Subject: 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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