On Wednesday 05 December 2001 00:37, Gong Zeng wrote: > Actually, I did both, i.e. adding the non-root user to both > 'dialout' and 'dip'. The problem is still there. Could it be > that I should not add the non-root user to the group manually > and I should do it thru pppconfig instead? I couldn't test it > out now as I'm using a windowz machine. > > GZ > > John Hasler wrote: > > Gong Zeng writes: > >>thanks for your tips, all of them worked except for the > >> dialing out part. I have included the non-root user to the > >> 'dialout' group as you mentioned > > > > This is incorrect. You need to add the non-root user to the > > 'dip' group (pppconfig can do that). You will need to log > > out and back in for the change to take effect.
To test that you added the user to the group try this: groups username where username is the user you want to check. Here's my output: groups jesse jesse : jesse dip src After you add a user to a new group, you need to log out and log back in for it to take effect. There are three situations for this: 1. If you're in a terminal window inside X you must log out of X, then logout of the console and then log back in. 2. If you're using a graphical login manager like xdm, gdm, or kdm, you should only have to log out of X and back in again. 3. If you're at the console just log out real quick and log back in. HTH, Jesse
