Thanks for all your suggestions - i have tried these...
take a look below -- using name option requires root priv's
is the main problem... Hmm.. 5.3 didnt have this limitation.
only 6.0
tnx, Ed
ed@nec:~ > ISP
/usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege
ed@nec:~ > cat ISP
/etc/suseppp/scripts/ppp-up generic
ed@nec:~ > groups
users uucp dialout
ed@nec:~ > ll /etc/suseppp/generic.options
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dialout 338 Feb 11 21:43
/etc/suseppp/generic.options
Best Regards,
Ed
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On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Steve Crane wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 07:14:01PM -0500, zentara wrote:
> >
> > Put all users in the "dialout" group?
>
> Although the account I use is a member of the dialouts group I can't use
> ppp-up from it. The reason is that the /etc/suseppp/options.generic
> file is created with only -rw------- permissions. Of course I can
> change this but each time suseconfig runs it sets the permissions back.
> No doubt it causes a security loophole to make this file's permissions
> -rw-r--r-- too.
>
> What is the correct way of allowing any user to use ppp-up?
>
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