On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 09:47:13AM +0200, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Steve Philp wrote:
I'm a long-time Linux user, but extremely new to SuSE. I'm having a bit of a problem that I'm not sure how to solve cleanly.
I'd like my normal users to be able to start a PPP connection to my ISP. In order to do that, I added the users to the dialout group (per a set of instructions that I read somewhere -- Users' Manual maybe?). They are still unable to start PPP, being given an error reading:
/etc/suseppp/generic.options: access denied
Now, if I change the permissions on /etc/suseppp/generic.* to 660, all is fine. Unfortunately, anytime SuSEconfig runs, it resets the perms on that file.
I've grep'ed through the /etc/permissions* stuff, but didn't see anything in those to point out where the permissions are being reset from. Anyone have an idea?
Finally, am I going about this incorrectly? Is there something I should be using instead?
All you should need to do is to add the user to the group "dialout". This should be mentioned in the manual somewhere.
There is no need to fiddle with the permissions.
The normal users are both added to the dialout group in /etc/group and /etc/gshadow. That doesn't seem to solve it. The problem is that /etc/suseppp/generic.options and /etc/suseppp/generic.chat are both installed with 600 permissions. So, if I'm tracking the permissions correctly, it doesn't matter what group they're in, since no group is allowed to read the files. -- Steve Philp sphilp@ameritech.net "The Internet is like crack for smart people" --Arsenio Hall - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e