Re: PPP problems with the Debian 2.2

[Glyn Millington <glyn@mill29.fsnet.co.uk>]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 06:38:36AM -0500, thus spake John Hasler:
> Martti Hamunen writes:
> > How can I use pppconfig as user (not only as root)?
> 
> By using the sudo command.  man sudo.
> 
> > I don't want to use the netconnection as root.
> 
> You don't need to.  Pppconfig is just for configuring ppp, not for running
> it.  To be able to use pon as a user to bring up ppp run pppconfig, go to
> 'Advanced', go to 'Add User', and enter your username.  This adds you to
> the dip group, all of whose members can run ppp.


Now there's a thing!  I did all that (and added myself to group
dialout) and when I tried to run "pon" I got this message

/usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not setuid-root


so I changed pppd to setuid-root

chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd

Can you tell me, have I done a BAD THING?  And what then is the
right way?

TIA

Glyn M









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