Thanks for all your suggestions - i have tried these... take a look below -- using name option requires root priv's is the main problem... Hmm.. 5.3 didnt have this limitation. only 6.0 tnx, Ed ed@nec:~ > ISP /usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege ed@nec:~ > cat ISP /etc/suseppp/scripts/ppp-up generic ed@nec:~ > groups users uucp dialout ed@nec:~ > ll /etc/suseppp/generic.options -rw-r--r-- 1 root dialout 338 Feb 11 21:43 /etc/suseppp/generic.options Best Regards, Ed //------------------------------------------------------------------------ // Edward March Jr. WB9RAA -- Mt. Prospect, IL // // ***> <A HREF="http://www.enteract.com/~emarch"><A HREF="http://www.enteract.com/~emarch</A">http://www.enteract.com/~emarch</A</A>> // ***> <A HREF="http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/clone.html"><A HREF="http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/clone.html</A">http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/clone.html</A</A>> // // Win95 or Better, I chose better! // I Run OS/2 Warp 3.0 & 4.0 and Linux S.u.S.E. 5.3 and 6.0 //------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Steve Crane wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 07:14:01PM -0500, zentara wrote:
Put all users in the "dialout" group?
Although the account I use is a member of the dialouts group I can't use ppp-up from it. The reason is that the /etc/suseppp/options.generic file is created with only -rw------- permissions. Of course I can change this but each time suseconfig runs it sets the permissions back. No doubt it causes a security loophole to make this file's permissions -rw-r--r-- too.
What is the correct way of allowing any user to use ppp-up?
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