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Re: pppd, imap and downloading single packages



John Hasler wrote:
> 
> Simon writes
> > 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...
> 
> Did you log the non-root users out and back in?  You must do so for the
> changes to take effect.
> 
> > /usr/bib/pon: /usr/sbin/pppd: Permission denied
> > /usr/bib/pon: exec: /usr/sbin/pppd: cannot execute: Permission denied
> 
> Post the result of
> 
>         ls -l `which pppd`
> 
> as well as the versions of the relevant packages.
> --
> John Hasler
> john@dhh.gt.org
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, Wisconsin
> 
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The permissions on pppd version 2.3.11 are

-rwsr-x---    1     root    src 

shouldn't that 's' be sufficient?


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