It worked. Thanks, Brian! - Andrew
Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 21 Sep, Andrew L. Gould wrote about "Permissions for non-root user to > use ppp" > > Hi all! > > > > As of last night, I have debian running on a stand-alone Pentium II > > machine at home. As root, I can connect to the ISP and activate the > > pppd using wvdial. As a non-root user, however, wvdial connects to the > > ISP; but can't start pppd. I keep getting messages asking me to check > > the permissions and/or the path to ppp. Since it works for root, I > > didn't think the path should be the problem. I've used chmod a+rwx on > > /etc/ppp/options*, /dev/modem, /dev/ttyS1 (the modem), and /etc/ppp. > > I'm sure I've done both too much and too little. Can anyone help? > > > > The default setup for Debian is to make everything for ppp use with > ownership of root.dip. So you should have just added your user account > to the dip group. See /usr/doc/ppp/README.Debian.gz for more info. My > user is also in group dialout which my ttyS? devices are root.dialout. > But I don't know if a current slink is setup by default that way or not > anymore. > > -- > Brian > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
