Re: Newbie question : gnome, bash, and ppp

[Jesse Goerz <jgoerz@bellsouth.net>]

On Wednesday 05 December 2001 00:37, Gong Zeng wrote:
> Actually, I did both, i.e. adding the non-root user to both
> 'dialout' and 'dip'.  The problem is still there.  Could it be
> that I should not add the non-root user to the group manually
> and I should do it thru pppconfig instead?  I couldn't test it
> out now as I'm using a windowz machine.
>
> GZ
>
> John Hasler wrote:
> > Gong Zeng writes:
> >>thanks for your tips, all of them worked except for the
> >> dialing out part. I have included the non-root user to the
> >> 'dialout' group as you mentioned
> >
> > This is incorrect.  You need to add the non-root user to the
> > 'dip' group (pppconfig can do that).  You will need to log
> > out and back in for the change to take effect.

To test that you added the user to the group try this:
groups username

where username is the user you want to check.  Here's my output:
groups jesse
jesse : jesse dip src

After you add a user to a new group, you need to log out and log 
back in for it to take effect.  There are three situations for 
this:
1. If you're in a terminal window inside X you must log out of 
X, then logout of the console and then log back in.
2. If you're using a graphical login manager like xdm, gdm, or 
kdm, you should only have to log out of X and back in again.
3. If you're at the console just log out real quick and log back 
in.

HTH,
Jesse