On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 21:54 +1100, Paul Maloney wrote: > Hi all, > It's the pest again. been playing with debian and when i try to use Kppp > the following error shows. Failed to execute child process > "/usr/bin/kppp" (permission denien)". Kppp is loaded and works and if i > start ppp when i do the install it continuely connects to the isp > whether i wont to or not. any suggestions.
Your user account doesn't have permission to run pppd (the program that starts the ppp connection). You'll need to add your user to the dip and dialout groups. To do that, you'd open a terminal, and run these commands as root (where bob is your username): adduser bob dip adduser bob dialout Cheers, -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
