Hello, all. I have been struggling valiantly to get a user to connect to an ISP using wvdial, but so far, no dice. Here's the deal: everything works very nicely for the root, but it's been an awful struggle to get a user to that oh-so-desirable state. I added a user to the dialout group, modified the permissions on all of the files in a reasonable manner, but I have been unable to get the pppd to play nicely with the user. Currently, this is the error I get:
Apr 5 22:13:37 cmayes pppd[3037]: Failed to reopen /dev/ttyS1: Function not implemented Now, I have modified the permissions on my modem a number of times, but the pppd used to reply: Apr 5 19:41:29 cmayes pppd[1824]: Failed to reopen /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied I hadn't changed the permissions on the device when it decided to be nice. Here are the current permissions: crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 Apr 5 22:22 /dev/ttyS1 Since root has the same permissions, it seemed reasonable that they would work for a user (though root can get around such things...) I have been discussing this problem for most of the day today, and Avery thinks that it's a convoluted permissions problem. I don't know the diffrerence between setuid and setgid, but neither one seem to work for me. Here are the current permissions on the pppd, which work for root, but not for a user: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dialout 113724 Mar 23 06:22 /usr/sbin/pppd It looks like the permissions that Avery suggested, but they do not work. I also blew away the default options file and have started from scratch. Currently, it contains: lock local (per Avery's suggestion). I have the New pppd set to yes in my wvdial.conf file. If it helps, the /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial contains: noauth name wvdial Finally, the pppd kept demanding a .ppprc file, so I essentially copied the options file and put it there. I also tried leaving it blank, but it had the same error. Is this a problem with the program itself, or am I missing something in the configuration? Here are my stats: Debian 2.1 (mix of stable and unstable), pppd version 2.3.6, kernel 2.0.36 (stock), Celeron 333a, 128 MB RAM... If you need more info, I can accomodate. Thanks! -Chris -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/CC/MC d- s+:+ a-- C++ US P L++ E W++ N- o? K? w O M- V- PS++ PE+ Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X+ R tv+ b++ DI+ D- G e+(++) h--- r++ z+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
