I ran pppconfig but found no option to add a ppp user.  I had already made
the user a member of the dip and dialout groups.

-----Original Message-----
From:   André Dahlqvist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:   Tuesday, July 25, 2000 8:18 PM
To:     debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:        Re: Non-root user executing pon

On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:04:30PM -0500, R. D. Loga wrote:

> When a non-root user types pon at the prompt they get "Connect script
> failed".  Pon works fine for the root user.  I changed several file
> permissions to get this far.  Do I have to change permissions on all
> the scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory too?  Is there an easy way
> to allow non-root users to use pon?

There sure is, just run pppconfig and choose to add a ppp user. Or you
could manually add that user to the "dip" group.
--

// André


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