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Re: [Plug] PPP problems with Debian
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The best way is just to do step 6, and skip the others. In a multiuser,
system this lets you control who can use ppp and who can't. For a single
user home system, I guess it doesn't really matter if you leave the
executables open for everyone to execute, but using the groups is the way
to go in my opinion!
Jason
At 11:19 AM 6/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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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