Re: Dial to the Internet as User

[<karlp ourldsfamily com>]

This isn't a very elegant way of doing it, but I use the X-client, netcfg
and go to the interfaces tab, then select PPP0 and it brings up a window
which has some more tabs. On one of them, there's a check box for allowing
any user to start or stop the interface. That worked for me before I left
the world of slow modems and entered DSL heaven.

Karl L. Pearson
Senior Consulting Systems Analyst
Senior Consulting Database Analyst
karlp ourldsfamily com

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Horace wrote:

Hi,

I have configured chat and pppd and created a dialing script and a hangup
script. I  have actually connected to the internet and hangup from it --
as root. I can't do it as an ordinary user. Everytime I ran the dialing
script I get a msg that "only root can run or use pppd because setuid for
root is not set".

Btw, I have tried dialing as a regular user by su-ing to root then back
and then back again to su to hangup.

For my attempt to fix it, here's what I did:
login as root
chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/pppd
chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/dialscript /usr/local/bin/hangup

this didn't work so i tried:

chown root:pppusers /usr/sbin/pppd
chown root:pppusers /usr/local/bin/dialscript /usr/local/bin/hangup

still did not work. I already have a pppusers group in my system.

Can anyone tell me how can I fix this so that I can dial and hangup as an
ordinary user?

As always, THANKS.

-- 
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