On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 09:21:25PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > * "Alberto" == Alberto Meroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alberto> I added the user to the group dialout and dip and the user > Alberto> can log to the provider with pon and logout with poff but... > > OK, this is good. He should then also be able to use any other pppd > frontend. > > Alberto> He cannot read the log file fo a problem of permissions. Is > Alberto> there a clean way to solve the situation? > > Any user in the adm group can read (all) logfiles (remember to relogin > after adding the user to the group). For now, you can just su to root > in a xterm. > > Alberto> And if the same user tries to use xisp or kppp or gnome-ppp > Alberto> it does not work apparently pppd get a modem hangup. I > Alberto> installed the peer file and so on but I have no idea for the > Alberto> solution (of course I could do it as root but...) > > Well, first thing would be posting the relevant logfile parts. > > Start xisp as "xisp -debug" and try to connect. Then check the logs. > Also mention what kind of connection this is (terminal login or direct > PPP or such). > > Ciao, > Martin > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Here is the log file generated by plog. It seem that the problem is with authentication, I selected pap-secrets and my pap-secrets file contains username and password for the connection. I noticed that as user caeyme I cannot read and execute /etc/ppp. Maybe xisp shold be set user id ? It is now -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 240492 Oct 27 1998 /usr/bin/X11/xisp Thak you very much. Alberto Meroni
Jun 18 15:25:18 Mandrake pppd[32738]: pppd 2.3.5 started by caeyme, uid 1001 Jun 18 15:25:53 Mandrake pppd[32738]: Serial connection established. Jun 18 15:25:54 Mandrake pppd[32738]: Using interface ppp0 Jun 18 15:25:54 Mandrake pppd[32738]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 Jun 18 15:25:54 Mandrake pppd[32738]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x4d3c16c9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 18 15:25:56 Mandrake pppd[32738]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x24 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth pap> <magic 0x391d68e8> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 18 15:25:56 Mandrake pppd[32738]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x24 <auth pap>] Jun 18 15:25:56 Mandrake pppd[32738]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x25 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth pap> <magic 0x391d68e8> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 18 15:25:56 Mandrake pppd[32738]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x25 <auth pap>] Jun 18 15:25:56 Mandrake pppd[32738]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x26 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth pap> <magic 0x391d68e8> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 18 15:25:56 Mandrake pppd[32738]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x26 <auth pap>] Jun 18 15:25:57 Mandrake pppd[32738]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x27 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth pap> <magic 0x391d68e8> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 18 15:25:57 Mandrake pppd[32738]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x27 <auth pap>] Jun 18 15:25:57 Mandrake pppd[32738]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x28 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth pap> <magic 0x391d68e8> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 18 15:25:57 Mandrake pppd[32738]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x28 <auth pap>] Jun 18 15:25:57 Mandrake pppd[32738]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x4d3c16c9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 18 15:25:57 Mandrake pppd[32738]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Jun 18 15:25:57 Mandrake pppd[32738]: Modem hangup Jun 18 15:25:57 Mandrake pppd[32738]: Connection terminated. Jun 18 15:25:58 Mandrake pppd[32738]: Exit.