hi, I wonder whether any body can help. i am trying to get my system (halve bo, halve hamm) to dial-up the internet. yes it works, but only by running pon as root. i want to have a cgi-script so that all my users on win95 boxes can dial-up (this box does ip masq). how?
i have the scrips, basically they say connecting, and run pon. no joy, pon can not find pppd cause it is in /usr/sbin/ and they are running with a uid and gid of www-data. the scripts are owned by root.root so i make them setuid, no joy there say error. i don't understand why my setuid did not work? do you? i tried adding www-data to the dip and dialout groups, again no joy :-( i changed the line in the cgi to /usr/sbin/pppd and it found pppd but pppd did not have read access to /etc/ppp/peers/provide because it was running as www-data. what is the correct way of doing this? why was setuid not working why did adding www-data to /etc/group on dialout and dip not work? please help. what is the correct way of doing this? -- Edward Betts http://www.hairnet.demon.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
