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From: Oliver Maunder
Message-ID: <3A0BE8B1.4ACE5FA2@pro.procergs.com.br>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:23:13 -0200
From: Flavio Arthur Leal Ferreira
Hi all
I've seen this problem come up a couple of times, but I've never seen a solution that works for me.
I'm running Suse 7.0 and I've been trying to connect up to the internet using kppp. I can do this as root, but when I log on with my user account I get the infamous "pppd died unexpectedly" message.
My /etc/ppp/options file is empty. The permissions on /usr/sbin/pppd are:
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root dialout 155364 Aug 2 19:19 pppd
and my user account is a member of the dialout group.
I emailed Suse support about this, and their three word solution was "Try using kinternet". Now, that may well work (I haven't tried it yet) but that's not the point - I want to know why kppp isn't working!
Any of you got any ideas?
Thanks
Olly
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From: "Bryan S. Tyson"
I'm running Suse 7.0 and I've been trying to connect up to the internet using kppp. I can do this as root, but when I log on with my user account I get the infamous "pppd died unexpectedly" message.
I emailed Suse support about this, and their three word solution was "Try using kinternet". Now, that may well work (I haven't tried it yet) but that's not the point - I want to know why kppp isn't working!
In SuSE 7 they set kppp not to use suid. Supposedly this is a security risk. I think making it so kppp won't work for regular users is not really a solution. The knowledge base did have an article saying to put your user name and password in pap-secrets, but that made no difference for me. So I maxed out the permissions on kppp, including suid, and it works for me as user now. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional KMail 1.0.29.2 Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************************
From: Jonathan Drews
Hi all
I've seen this problem come up a couple of times, but I've never seen a solution that works for me.
I'm running Suse 7.0 and I've been trying to connect up to the internet using kppp. I can do this as root, but when I log on with my user account I get the infamous "pppd died unexpectedly" message.
My /etc/ppp/options file is empty. The permissions on /usr/sbin/pppd are:
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root dialout 155364 Aug 2 19:19 pppd
and my user account is a member of the dialout group.
I emailed Suse support about this, and their three word solution was "Try using kinternet". Now, that may well work (I haven't tried it yet) but that's not the point - I want to know why kppp isn't working!
Any of you got any ideas?
----------------------------------------------------- You should look at the support database report "kppp not working in SuSE 7.0" at: http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/randall_kppp_suid.html It explains why kppp is disabled. It appears Wvdial is the preferred dialer. <p> Cheers, Jonathan
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