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Re: kppp





On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
Its not neceseraly a SUID program, only if you mak eit so (maybe some
distributions do it by default?) I run it as a regular user. What you need
is to make shure the apropriate port is group: dip, /etc/ppp is grp dip
(for some reson it keeps changing in back on me to root? any sugestions)
and /var/log/ppp.log is group dip (same problem?) and add the apropriate
user to group dip. That should work without seting kppp SUID.

michf@math.tau.ac.il

> kppp is an SUID program. There should be no problem runing it as a normal
> user.
> 
> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Noam Meltzer wrote:
> 
> > Dan \"BUTTER\" wrote:
> > 
> > >  HI THEREI TRIED TO CONNECT TO  THE INTERNET USING KPPP AND IT TELLS
> > > ME RIGHT AWAY THAT THE MODEM IS BUSY EVEN BEFORE TRYING TO DIALnow i
> > > know that my configration of the port is right (CUA2 for com3).BUt
> > > still i can`t figure out the problem     THAKNS FROM
> > > AHEAD                                                         dan
> > 
> > Hi Dan,
> > 1) why won't you try a smaller font?
> > 2) are you using root or a regular user for doing so?
> > if 2 is NO then I would recommend you to read ppp-howto and there's
> > another ppp-howto which i can't recall its name on how to give the
> > proper restrictions for regular users to use pppd.
> > 
> > Noam Meltzer
> > tsoam@thenavy.com
> > 
> > 
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> Tzafrir Cohen
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