Re: PPP as normal user
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:08:03AM -0500, servis@purdue.edu wrote:
> *- Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote about "Re: PPP as normal user"
> | On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 01:57:08AM -0500, David Densmore wrote:
> | > I just installed Debian 2.0.
> | >
> | > Can someone tell me how to establish a PPP connection from my normal
> | > user account? I have no problem as root.
[...] Many directory listing ommitted.
> % pon
> /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/options: No such file or directory
>
> As root it works perfectly. What am I missing?
You could use sudo to run pon/poff and other programs that work perfectly
as root. Installing and using sudo seems a lot easier than messing with
all these file permissions.
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jkern@klis.com Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux
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