Re: Permissions for non-root user to use ppp
*- On 21 Sep, Andrew L. Gould wrote about "Permissions for non-root user to use ppp"
> Hi all!
>
> As of last night, I have debian running on a stand-alone Pentium II
> machine at home. As root, I can connect to the ISP and activate the
> pppd using wvdial. As a non-root user, however, wvdial connects to the
> ISP; but can't start pppd. I keep getting messages asking me to check
> the permissions and/or the path to ppp. Since it works for root, I
> didn't think the path should be the problem. I've used chmod a+rwx on
> /etc/ppp/options*, /dev/modem, /dev/ttyS1 (the modem), and /etc/ppp.
> I'm sure I've done both too much and too little. Can anyone help?
>
The default setup for Debian is to make everything for ppp use with
ownership of root.dip. So you should have just added your user account
to the dip group. See /usr/doc/ppp/README.Debian.gz for more info. My
user is also in group dialout which my ttyS? devices are root.dialout.
But I don't know if a current slink is setup by default that way or not
anymore.
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Brian
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