On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 04:55:12PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 02:17:06PM +0000, Julian S. Taylor wrote: > | ~+/usr/sbin/pppd defaultroute ... > | > | When I use cu on Debian I get the message"pppd permission denied". I can > | use wvdial to my ISP but I can't get into Sun now that I've switched to > | Debian. What am I doing wrong? > > It may be you need to add the group "dialout". By default > regular users don't have permission to use pppd.
IIRC the group is already there and named 'dip'. just run a adduser <your_name> dip -- Weasel http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ PGP encrypted messages prefered. See my site for my PGP key. -------------------------------------------------------------- The software said Windows95 or better, so I got Linux...
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