Re: pon permission problems

[Mike Schmitz <mschmitz@coinet.com>]

On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 10:27:47PM -0800, michael wrote:
> The pon command works from the root account but not from the 'michael'
> user account (mine's a single user system).  Michael is a member of
> group pid and dialout.
> 
> When michael executes pon the system issues the following complaint:
> 
> You do not have permissions to access /etc/ppp.chatscript or
> /etc/ppp.options_out
> 
> ls -l on ppp.chatscript:
> 
> -rw-------   1 root     root          235 Nov 27 11:54
> /etc/ppp.chatscript
> 
> ls -l on ppp.options_out:
> 
> -rw-------   1 root     root          108 Nov 27 12:01
> /etc/ppp.options_out
> 
> Clearly these files have the wrong permissions or owners.  Which is it?

Make these files mode 640 owner root group dialout.

> 
> PS.  I had installed Netscape Communicator vis dpkg (took a while to get
> the tar file named correctly).  However, I didn't like the setup because
> it wouldn't run as root.  So I deinstalled via dpkg then used the
> netscape install script.  Any problems with that?
> 
> PPS.  I installed the jdk stuff via dpkg as well.  It took a while to
> figure out why Netscape was exiting by itself.  I thought Java was
> included with it, why isn't it and why does it crash without it (because
> I've got Java module support installed in the kernel?)?
> 
> 

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