Re: Access Problem with pppd
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:34:33PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for a l?ttle understanding problem. Maybe someone can advice me.
>
> On my EEEPC I am running an application called "umtsmon" (this is for gprs-
> access). Umtsmom is a single binary located in /usr/bin.
>
> When I start it, it is started, and when I want to connect to the internet it
> starts a modem connection by using pppd.
>
> This is fine working, when I am starting it as user "root". (I use "sux" to
> become root from a normal user).
>
> When I start umtsmon as normal user, pppd is not allowed to be used by this
> user. This is ok, I want only users in a special group use pppd.
>
> So far so well, but I dop not understand this: When set the binary
> with rwsr-x--- (root:dialout), then umtsmon should start with the rights of
> root and should be also allowed to start pppd! But i does clearly NOT! I get
> the maesage: pppd is not allowed to start, only root is allowed to start it.
>
> What do I do wrong? Where do I think wrong?
>
> BTW: maybe someone wants to adopt umtsmon and create a package. It is open-
> source / GPL and it is really great tool (This only remarked besides)
>
> Thank you for any help!
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Hans
Excuse me, what about sudo?
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