Re: Dial to the Internet as User

[Karl Pearson <karlp ourldsfamily com>]

Check the logfiles and see if there's an idea there. Also, and especially
if there's entries in /var/log/messages, check file permissions,
especially at the directory level. You may not be getting access to all
the files you need. Like especially /dev/modem.

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


On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Horace G. Friend III wrote:

> Hi Karl,
> 
> I checked netcfg and tried to edit ppp0 but saw that the checkbox allowing
> other user to start and stop is already checked.
> 
> I also checked the kppp.conf file and found that there's a kppp.allow
> containing my username, which allowed me to use kppp to dial to my server.
> 
> I read the pppd man pages and created the /etc/ppp/options file (which was
> already existing but empty) and put:  privgroup dialer
> 
> I then created a dialer group and added myself to it.
> 
> I logged-in as regular user and found that I could issue the dialing
> script without any complaints from pppd but nothing happens to my modem.
> It doesn't even activate the ppp0.pid process. 
> 
> I also checked and saw that I've got wvdial in /etc/ppp/peer directory and
> have tried dialing but it also complains about not being able to access
> pppd. Never tried it as
> root though.
> 
> Maybe there's something that I've missed. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>