Re: pon permissions
All you need to do is to make your four users members of the dip group.
If you used pppconfig to set up your dial up networking then this has
the options to add users to dip, or just issue 'adduser <uname> dip'.
Matthew
On 12 Jan, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On a stand-alone system four users need access to the internet. At
> present only root can run pon. I have changed file permissions,
> commented auth in /etc/ppp/options, and executed adduser <userid> dip.
> Now, when a user tries to start pon, the user gets the message:
>
> must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not setuid-root
>
> I have read the manpages for setuid and seteuid but it is not clear to
> me what I should change and the consequences of a file being setuid-root
> seem undesirable. Can anyone help resolve this problem?
>
> Tom George
>
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