I've just been using pppd via pon / poff from root ever since I set things up with pppconfig, but now that I want to add other users to the system I need a way of giving users access. I tried just adding users through the appropriate bit of pppconfig, and I far as I can tell, it's successfully added them to the 'dip' group. BUT, when I run pon as a non-root user I get the message
/usr/bib/pon: /usr/sbin/pppd: Permission denied /usr/bib/pon: exec: /usr/sbin/pppd: cannot execute: Permission denied Why? My second question... is where do find info on setting up my email - presumably there's a number of things to be configured?! If I want to use imap so that I can effective mirror my email from work, how do I go about doing that? And am I likely to need to sort anything out at work? Finally, a nice quick question. How do I download, install and compile a single program and it's dependencies? I had a look at using dselect, but it seemed to want to try and install everything that was already on my system and up to date. Also tried using apt-get install, but nothing seems to happen. There must be a dead easy way of doing... if I jsut download the .deb file from an ftp site where do I stick it, how do I unpack, install and compile it? Is there something even easier? Thanks, Simon. -- srt
