On 11-Jun-98 Richard Watts wrote:
>
> I'm somewhat of a newbie to linux, I'm loving it and haven't been to my
> windows parition in a long time :) I downloaded ezppp and set it up in
> root, and when I'm in root it works fine, great connection and
> everything.
> But when I log on as a non-root user, it dials up to the service, sends
> login and password info, and connects for a split second, but then i get
> a
> message saying "pppd died unexpectedly". I'm pretty sure this has to do
> with permissions on files but I'm not sure, does anyone know what I can
> do
> to make this thing run under a nonroot user? Is it a permissions
> problem and if so what do I need to give permissions to for it to
> run? Thanks to anyone who can help!
Been at work all day and this has maybe already been answered.
As root, type:
chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd
Then you'll be able to keep pppd running.
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