Hi! On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 04:11:49AM +1200, cr wrote: > Curiously though, /etc/ppp/options still has 'auth' in it, while > /etc/ppp/peers/provider has 'noauth' (and already did, I think, > even when I was having that 'drop-out' problem mentioned above). I > don't know how the two inter-relate, but evidently what I did in Kppp > has changed something else somewhere. I was intending to ask for > some clarification on this list.
pppd(8) says: /etc/ppp/options System default options for pppd, read before user default options or command-line options. /etc/ppp/peers A directory containing options files which may contain privi- leged options, even if pppd was invoked by a user other than root. The system administrator can create options files in this directory to permit non-privileged users to dial out without requiring the peer to authenticate, but only to certain trusted peers. > Other question - what's the 'proper' way to give a user (me) access to > ppp? I can think of a couple of ways that might work but I might as > well do it the 'proper' way. I don't need high security (being the > only user) but I'm sure I shouldn't be posting as root ;) Adding the unpriviledged user to group dialout should be enough for modem dialouts[1]. So long Thomas 1. http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/debian/user/2002/12/msg01107.html -- .''`. Obviously we do not want to leave zombies around. - W. R. Stevens : :' : Thomas Krennwallner <djmaecki at ull dot at> `. `'` 1024D/67A1DA7B 9484 D99D 2E1E 4E02 5446 DAD9 FF58 4E59 67A1 DA7B `- http://bigfish.ull.at/~djmaecki/
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