-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hmmm... ugly long lines. Fix the MUAs to use lines < 76 characters at maximum.
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > I did a fresh install of Debian 2.1r3 last night. Accessing the internet via > wvdial as a > normal user required all three of the following: > > adduser algould dip > chmod a+rwx /etc/ppp/* > chmod a+rwx /etc/ppp > > 'a+rwx' may have been overkill; but access attempts between each step failed > due to inadequate > permissions to use the modem, pppd, and to write to the various ppp related > scripts (chap* and > pap* scripts). A much better solution would have been to correct the permissions, specifically "chown -R root.dip /etc/ppp /etc/chatscripts". The modes should already have been 660 (or 640, whichever is necessary). Also, make sure the /usr/sbin/pppd binary has the proper modes and sxid bits set. This bug was discussed a while back on the list. Wonder why no one fixed it...? - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN/EXN77M/9WKZLW5AQEIfgP/Qr0fLGwDy3dSUdDADrwHXUwZK3MK4xyA EX6G1bbX4K6l6pMrmM+mPlp9Ob6mKqTT5NqucGepz1WyNoyxznVx6RBOOCz8MNwm QGAu8yuAQ42qhWNO0oR/KMiH+eBVrnt9XvIUKQAtnv8dUSRQCdNtnAFAgwZy/6vd zaDTpGyQBNM= =+qR0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
