Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: > What's dialout for then? For situations where the user needs to use a serial port directly. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello s. keeling (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Incoming from John Hasler: >> s. keeling writes: >> >>> Consider adding it to dialout as well. >> >> Not necessary. > > Good to know, thanks. What's dialout for then? To access the serial ports. With that you can for example use programs like kpp

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John Hasler: > s. keeling writes: > > Consider adding it to dialout as well. > > Not necessary. Good to know, thanks. What's dialout for then? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: > Consider adding it to dialout as well. Not necessary. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Bram Mertens: > > However there is one thing I can't figure out: I would like to be able > to bring my ppp connection up as a regular user. As root pon brings up > the connection without problem but as regular user I get the error: > "Error: only members of the 'dip' group can use

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Moin! * Bram Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040725 11:44]: > AFAIK changes to groups should take effect immediately. Can anybody > tell me what else I should check? No, the group changes take effect, when you logout and agein login. The output of »id« is quite usefull in those cases. Yours sinc

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bram Mertens (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > [starting pon as a regular user] > > So I added my "regular user account" to this group (as root) > adduser m8ram dip > > grep dip /etc/group now shows: > dip:x:30:m8ram > but I still get the error mentioned earlier. > > AFAIK changes to groups

bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread Bram Mertens
Hi After lurking a while on this list and reading the excellent documentation that comes with the debian testing install I have been able to solve almost all problems I encountered after switching from SuSE (which I still run on my dekstop) to Debian on my laptop. However there is one thing I can