Hi!
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 04:11:49AM +1200, cr wrote:
> Curiously though, /etc/ppp/options still has 'auth' in it, while
> /etc/ppp/peers/provider has 'noauth' (and already did, I think,
> even when I was having that 'drop-out' problem mentioned above). I
> don't know how the two inter-relate, but evidently what I did in Kppp
> has changed something else somewhere. I was intending to ask for
> some clarification on this list.
pppd(8) says:
/etc/ppp/options
System default options for pppd, read before user default
options or command-line options.
/etc/ppp/peers
A directory containing options files which may contain privi-
leged options, even if pppd was invoked by a user other than
root. The system administrator can create options files in this
directory to permit non-privileged users to dial out without
requiring the peer to authenticate, but only to certain trusted
peers.
> Other question - what's the 'proper' way to give a user (me) access to
> ppp? I can think of a couple of ways that might work but I might as
> well do it the 'proper' way. I don't need high security (being the
> only user) but I'm sure I shouldn't be posting as root ;)
Adding the unpriviledged user to group dialout should be enough for
modem dialouts[1].
So long
Thomas
1. http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/debian/user/2002/12/msg01107.html
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