A. Gustavo Gonzalez wrote:
>
> > I configured Kppp (in the KDE wm) and initially I get a connection but
> > then it dies (unexpectedly! - is this a joke? Was he shot? I imagine
> > that if he'd died after long term illness he died 'expectedly'). Why is
> > that? I didn't do anything out of the ordinary nor did I add any
> > options.
Mac Q. Flores IV wrote:
> i always manage to screw my kppp/ppp every now and then and i've pretty
> much narrowed down the causes of why the message "kppp or kppp helper died
> unexpectedly". check the following:
>
> 1. make sure you have a /etc/resolv.conf file
> 2. make sure that you have setuid permission to /usr/sbin/pppd. i've
> found out that having "x" permission to this is not enough.
> 3. make sure that you have at least "x" permission to kppp. i've set this
>
> to suid also because i'm very nasty . . . the kppp screen does not come up
> anyway if you don't have "x"permissions to it.
>
> the permissions to the above items seems to be reset after you run YaST. i
>
> remember reading a post where it said that one of the things that YaST does
>
> on exit is to compare "all" essential permissions to the /etc/permissions
> file. if there is a change, YaST resets it to match this file. what i
> have done is to backup the old permissions file to /etc/permissions_old and
>
> then "uncomment" (#) the permissions of the items that you don't want yaST
> to reset. it's also good to keep a backup of /etc/resolv.conf somewhere
> since YaST also clears this file out when it exits.
>
>
I have the /etc/resolv.conf file. Permission for pppd is set to '-rwsr-xr--'.
I know what 'r', 'w' and 'x' stand for but what about 's'? It's not mentioned
in the SuSE manual (at least, I didn't find it and believe me I searched for
it) And what's 'setuid'? There's no "lock" option for /etc/ppp/options. This
is done in YaST, right?
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