From netd@fastrans.net Thu Feb 5 16:48:08 1998 From: netd@fastrans.net To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] tkp/pppd permissons (user account) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 17:48:08 +0100 Message-ID: <6bcqg8$egv$1@Galois.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <[S.u.S.E. Linux] tkp/pppd permissons (user account)> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4188865001857422044==" --===============4188865001857422044== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --------------2701F33D2F041D739631BE6B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Scott Gray wrote: > Hi, > > When started from my root account, tkppp has no problem connecting to my is= p. > However, initially tkppp could connet to my isp if started from my user acc= ount. > I would get a message from pppd stating that permission was denied. Theref= ore, > I set the permission to pppd as follow: > > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root dialout 83856 Nov 30 07:14 /usr/sbin/pppd* Correct me if I'm wrong here, but wouldn't chown root.users /usr/sbin/pppd be enough? --------------2701F33D2F041D739631BE6B Content-Type: text/html; charset=3Dus-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Scott Gray wrote:
Hi, When started from my root account, tkppp has no problem connecting to my isp. However, initially tkppp could connet to my isp if started from my user account. I would get a message from pppd stating that permission was denied.=20 Therefore, I set the permission to pppd as follow: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root dialout =20 83856 Nov 30 07:14 /usr/sbin/pppd*Correct me if I'm wrong here, but wouldn't chown root.users /usr/sbin/pppd be enough? --------------2701F33D2F041D739631BE6B-- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============4188865001857422044==--