On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:08:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> *- Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote about "Re: PPP as normal user"
> | On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 01:57:08AM -0500, David Densmore wrote:
> | > I just installed Debian 2.0.
> | > 
> | > Can someone tell me how to establish a PPP connection from my normal
> | > user account?  I have no problem as root.

[...]  Many directory listing ommitted.

> % pon
> /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/options: No such file or 
> directory
> 
> As root it works perfectly.  What am I missing?

You could use sudo to run pon/poff and other programs that work perfectly
as root.  Installing and using sudo seems a lot easier than messing with
all these file permissions.


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  [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Jack Kern   Yarmouth, Nova Scotia   Debian GNU/Linux 

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