[linux-help] Re: PPP question

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can change that by issuing this command:

chmod +x /usr/sbin/pppd

But do that with caution!  By doing that, you can (if you're not careful)
give anyone access to run pppd (and dial long distance numbers, etc).


On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:19:49AM -0500, Bruce Alderman wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 22 May 2000, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> 
> >Also check for the existance of /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/options.ttySX
> >(replace X with the appropriate number for your serial port).  If either of
> >these files exists, check the ownership of these files, and check their
> >contents.  I'm guessing that _at least_ one of these files exists, and
> >contains a "connect" option... if you take that out, it may fix the problem
> >as well...
> 
> This appears to be the source of the problem.  I commented out
> the"connect" line from /etc/ppp/options, and now I'm getting a
> different error message when I try to run ppp-on from my user
> account:
> 
> /usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd since it is not setuid-root
> 
> This looks like progress, but I'm not familiar with setuid.  Is
> this something I can change with linuxconf?  Or is there a
> better way?
> 
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