On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:42:36PM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote:
> Hi Folks;
> Have read all the manual on this that I could find and
> looked at the archives on Debian.org with no luck.
> So here goes! Haves set up wvdial with all the info as
> requested. Can get wvdial to contact my ISP and then
> pppd dies and it tells me to look in /var/log for any
> error messages. There are no error messages regarding
> pppd here. So I looked at syslog which has the following:
>
> "pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not
> setuid-root."
>
> What do I need to do to get this operating as a regular
> user?
Try using pppconfig (as root) to configure ppp, adding your normal user
to the allowed users (i.e. `adduser <login> dip` ). Then use pon/poff
to bring the connection up/down.
Ignore most of that stuff in the PPP-HOWTO.
--
#! /bin/sh
# ppp-address: What's my Internet Address for ppp0 ?
/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 2> /dev/null | grep 'inet addr:' | sed \
's=.*inet
addr\:\([0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\).*=\1='
