pppd, imap and downloading single packages
I've just been using pppd via pon / poff from root ever since I set
things up with pppconfig, but now that I want to add other users to the
system I need a way of giving users access. I tried just adding users
through the appropriate bit of pppconfig, and I far as I can tell, it's
successfully added them to the 'dip' group. BUT, when I run pon as a
non-root user I get the message
/usr/bib/pon: /usr/sbin/pppd: Permission denied
/usr/bib/pon: exec: /usr/sbin/pppd: cannot execute: Permission denied
Why?
My second question... is where do find info on setting up my email -
presumably there's a number of things to be configured?! If I want to
use imap so that I can effective mirror my email from work, how do I go
about doing that? And am I likely to need to sort anything out at work?
Finally, a nice quick question. How do I download, install and compile a
single program and it's dependencies? I had a look at using dselect, but
it seemed to want to try and install everything that was already on my
system and up to date. Also tried using apt-get install, but nothing
seems to happen. There must be a dead easy way of doing... if I jsut
download the .deb file from an ftp site where do I stick it, how do I
unpack, install and compile it? Is there something even easier?
Thanks,
Simon.
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srt
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