Re: pon permissions
Tom,
Another solution and one I prefer is to use the dial on demain feature. This
will automatically start the dialup link once a call is made outside your
domain. Works VERY well here using the kernel 2.2.17.
Best of luck tweeking.
On Friday 12 January 2001 10:25, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On a stand-alone system four users need access to the internet. At
> present only root can run pon. I have changed file permissions,
> commented auth in /etc/ppp/options, and executed adduser <userid> dip.
> Now, when a user tries to start pon, the user gets the message:
>
> must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not setuid-root
>
> I have read the manpages for setuid and seteuid but it is not clear to
> me what I should change and the consequences of a file being setuid-root
> seem undesirable. Can anyone help resolve this problem?
>
> Tom George
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