Nate writes: > I found the user needed to be added to both groups, dip and dialout.
Then your system is somehow misconfigured. Pppd should run as root when opening the serial port: the user should not need permissions on it. > usermod -G 20,30 username > is your friend here. 'adduser username groupname' is a much friendlier friend. > Read the man page carefully as any group the user is currently a member > of will be removed if not included in the command to add the user to the > new group(s). A good reason for using the adduser front-end to useradd. The version of pppconfig in unstable takes care of adding users to dip. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI