Re: How to enable some specify users to run pon and poff?
Nate writes:
> I found the user needed to be added to both groups, dip and dialout.
Then your system is somehow misconfigured. Pppd should run as root when
opening the serial port: the user should not need permissions on it.
> usermod -G 20,30 username
> is your friend here.
'adduser username groupname' is a much friendlier friend.
> Read the man page carefully as any group the user is currently a member
> of will be removed if not included in the command to add the user to the
> new group(s).
A good reason for using the adduser front-end to useradd.
The version of pppconfig in unstable takes care of adding users to dip.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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