Re: pon/poff for ordinary user.

["Cliff W. Draper" <cliffwd@forte.com>]

On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
> addgroup <user> dip
> 
> Change/correct persmission of the following if not already set, well
> this is what I have and it works for me,
> 
> {root@brian}{~}[147]>ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd
>  118 -rwsr-xr--   1 root     dip        119004 Apr  5 06:40 /usr/sbin/pppd*
> {root@brian}{~}[141]>ls -dl /etc/ppp
>    1 drwxr-x---   6 root     dip          1024 May 27 08:28 /etc/ppp/
> {root@brian}{~}[142]>ls -dl /etc/ppp/options
>    1 -rw-r-----   1 root     dip           22 Apr 29 21:25 /etc/ppp/options
> {root@brian}{ppp}[155]>ls -dl /etc/ppp/peers
>    1 drwxr-x---   2 root     dip          1024 May 17 16:59 /etc/ppp/peers/
> {root@brian}{~}[143]>ls -l /etc/ppp/peers/provider
>    1 -rw-r-----   1 root     dip           682 Mar  4 08:29 /etc/ppp/peers/provider
> {root@brian}{~}[144]>ls -dl /etc/chatscripts
>    1 drwxr-x---   2 root     dip          1024 May 19 08:51 /etc/chatscripts/
> {root@brian}{~}[145]>ls -dl /etc/chatscripts/provider
>    1 -rw-r-----   1 root     dip           252 May 18 21:06 /etc/chatscripts/provider

I looked into doing that way on my system, but I didn't want my dip users
to be able to read /etc/chatscript/provider as it has my password in it.
So, I gave my users sudo privledges and this works fine.  You might also
look into diald; it will take a while longer to configure, but it's much
cooler.

-Cliff
 cliffwd@forte.com