Re: Permissions for non-root user to use ppp
It worked. Thanks, Brian!
- Andrew
Brian Servis wrote:
> *- 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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