On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 02:02:20PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 06:38:36AM -0500, thus spake John Hasler: > > Martti Hamunen writes: > > > How can I use pppconfig as user (not only as root)? > > > > By using the sudo command. man sudo. > > > > > I don't want to use the netconnection as root. > > > > You don't need to. Pppconfig is just for configuring ppp, not for running > > it. To be able to use pon as a user to bring up ppp run pppconfig, go to > > 'Advanced', go to 'Add User', and enter your username. This adds you to > > the dip group, all of whose members can run ppp. > > > Now there's a thing! I did all that (and added myself to group > dialout) and when I tried to run "pon" I got this message
dip, not dialout, remove yourself from group dialout and add yourself to group dip: gpasswd -d yourusername dialout adduser yourusername dip > /usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not > setuid-root hmm.... > > so I changed pppd to setuid-root > > chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd > > Can you tell me, have I done a BAD THING? And what then is the > right way? well i think its permissions were screwed up, now EVERYONE can run pppd, which is not good IMO, do this to fix it: chown root.dip /usr/sbin/pppd chmod 4754 /usr/sbin/pppd ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd the last command should look like this: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 252392 Apr 1 2000 /usr/sbin/pppd -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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