On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:34:08AM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi to all! > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:17:27 -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > > >On Thursday 16 November 2000 12:53, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > >> connection. How should I define the right privileges in order to run > >> wvdial or pon from my personal account? > >> Thanks in advance! > > > >Add your personal account to the "dip" group. > >adduser youraccount dip > > I did it, but still I am not able to run pon from my personal account. I > got the following messages after pon: > > /usr/bin/pon: /usr/sbin/pppd: Permission denied > /usr/bin/pon: exec:/usr/sbin/pppd: cannot execute: Permission denied > > (remember that my personal account is aready a member of dip) did you logout after adding yourself to group dip? group membership does not take effect until the next login. to check run `id' or `groups' and see if dip is listed. > I wonder if it is a matter of privilege. After ls -l /usr/bin/pon I got > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50 Nov 4 19:07 /usr/bin/pon > > and after ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd I got > > -rwxr-x--- 1 root dip 183504 Nov 4 19:07 /usr/sbin/pppd > > Any help will be very welcome. Thanks in advance yup looks like you need to logout and relogin. if you already did that make sure your really a member of group dip, maybe something got hosed in /etc/group or /etc/gshadow. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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