Re: permissions for pon/poff

[Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna@onu.edu>]

Hi:

  I gto around this by creating a sudoer files in which I have given
  permission for me as a normal user to be able to call up pppd, etc.

  Hope this helps.

  Sebastian.


In-Reply-To: <[🔎] 20011113215247.QCJU27468.femail20.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there>

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote:
> I just set up a new box for a friend, installed from 2.2r3 and upgraded to 
> woody.  He can dial out as root (a no-no) but not as a normal user, so it's 
> apparently a permissions problem.  I added the user to the dip and dialout 
> groups with no change.  Poking around, I notice that /usr/bin/pon and 
> /usr/bin/poff are both owned by root and in the root group.  Is this correct?
> 
> I checked the bug listing for base/ppp but it's really no help.  What should 
> the group/owner and permissions for these scripts be?
> 
> TIA
> 
> bob
> 
> 
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Sebastian Canagaratna
Department of Chemistry
Ohio Northern University
s-canagaratna@onu.edu