Re: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-26 Thread Bolan Meek
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

Re: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-26 Thread David Wright
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

Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-25 Thread R. D. Loga
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

Re: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-25 Thread André Dahlqvist
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

RE: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-25 Thread R. D. Loga
: 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

Re: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
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

Re: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-25 Thread John Hasler
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