Richard Watts wrote:

> but then i get a
> message saying "pppd died unexpectedly".  I'm pretty sure this has to do
> with permissions on files but I'm not sure, does anyone know what I can do
> to make this thing run under a nonroot user?

I'm not sure, but this might solve your problem:

# chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd

This allows pppd to change itself to root when run by a non-root user.


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