Re: Permissions for non-root user to use ppp
Some (like me) who need send/expect may also have to chown root:dip /usr/bin/expect which is root:root by default (at least in slink). This way it worked for me.
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>Brian Servis wrote:
>> 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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