Re: establishing ppp connection as non-root
--- Alphonse Ogulla <ogulla@uonbi.ac.ke> wrote: > Hi
all,
> I configured ppp successfully using pppconfig and
> make use of pon/poff
> commands to bring up and bring down the link
> respectively. However, pon only
> works when ran as root and refuses otherwise.
>
> user@fep:~$ pon
>
> please configure /etc/ppp/peers/provider or use a
> command line argument to use
> another file in /etc/ppp/peers directory.
>
> Is it possible to run pon as non root? Tried
> changing some parameters in
> /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/peers/provider with
> little or no success.
> Anyway, if it is possible then how does one go about
> it.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Alphonse Ogulla
> Nairobi, Kenya
>
> --
>
To use pon/poff as non-root you need to add users to
the 'dip' group. You should be able to do this through
the adduser option in pppconfig
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