Re: Non-root user executing pon
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? Install the sudo package, and put in /etc/sudoers something like bolan ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pon, /usr/bin/poff read the sudo and sudoers man pages for full details, but, with substituting an appropriate username for bolan, this'll get you going. Basic use has one line for each user, but, as you'll read in the man pages, you can create sudoers groups. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home ph. on req.) http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html RMS of Borg: Resistance is futile; you shall be freed.
Re: Non-root user executing pon
Quoting Bolan Meek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 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? Add the user(s) to the group dip. Of course, you may have screwed things up if you've changed the file permissions wrongly. You could always dpkg --remove and then -i again to get things correct. N.B. The big gotcha is for root (you, perhaps) to add the user (you) to group dip, and then you try it again and it still doesn't work. Remember, you only get your group permissions when you log in again. (And if you remembered that, others won't!) Install the sudo package, and put in /etc/sudoers something like bolan ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pon, /usr/bin/poff read the sudo and sudoers man pages for full details, but, with substituting an appropriate username for bolan, this'll get you going. Basic use has one line for each user, but, as you'll read in the man pages, you can create sudoers groups. Yes, but it's all unnecessary. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Non-root user executing pon
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?
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
RE: Non-root user executing pon
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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Non-root user executing pon
I haven't used ppp with Debian, but I understood that permission to activate it was set in the same way as other resource accesses, such as sound - all you need to do is add the user to the appropriate group. For example: to allow myself to use the sound card while a normal user, I just added myself to the sound group in /etc/group (man group for the format of this file) Matthew 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?
Re: Non-root user executing pon
R. D. Loga writes: I ran pppconfig but found no option to add a ppp user. That option is in the version of pppconfig in unstable. I had already made the user a member of the dip and dialout groups. I think you have an old version of the ppp package that sets the permissions on /etc/chatscripts improperly. Try chmod g+s /etc/chatscripts chown root.dip /etc/chatscripts and chown root.dip /etc/chatscripts/* Or upgrade ppp and pppconfig. ppp users do not need to be in dialout. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
