Re: ppp how to use ppp for a normal user?
*- On 28 Sep, Shao Zhang wrote about "Re: ppp how to use ppp for a normal user?"
> Hi,
> You can create a PPP group and add all your users who are
> permitted to use pppd to this group. Then you can add a
> exexcutable permission to pppd for group ppp.
>
Debian's default setup is to have users in group dip for use of ppp.
See /usr/doc/ppp/README.Debian.gz for a few more details.
# ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd
126 -rwsr-x--- 1 root dip 127100 Sep 2 10:46 /usr/sbin/pppd*
>
> Herve BRUNEL [Herve.BRUNEL@mail.dotcom.fr] wrote:
>> I installed Debian slink and kernel 2.2.11 with success
>>
>> i can use my internet connexion as root, but i don't find how to run it like an user.
>>
>> I try, unsuccessfuly, to change attribut of /usr/sbin/pppd and script I created as root.
>>
>> the message is always the same " you must be root to run pppd
>>
--
Brian
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