Hello everyone, I have a problem here that the help files and archives have not been able to solve for me, or at least I don't understand the explaination of this. What it is exactly is that I just set up Suse 9.2 Professional on my laptop dual boot with XP. XP works fine as does Suse seem to except that when I open KPPP to connect to the internet with my PCMCIA card modem, I get a warning window that says that I do not have sufficient permission to do that, and to make sure that ppp is owned by root and that the SUID bit is set. What the heck does that mean? I am new to Linux and have tried to solve this by reading help on my own, but I honestly can't get it resolved. My user name belongs to "dialout" so why the problem? As reference, my PCMCIA modem (which is NOT a windmodem and has all controller stuff onboard) has worked with all other distro's including Mandriva 2005 which has been used most with it. I have the entire package installed with my 9.2 including all server stuff as I wanted to learn more about it. This is a magazine bundled Dual Layer DVD that I used - and just about everything under the sun is packaged with it. I really want to get this resolved as I want to buy 9.3 Pro but want to make sure this works ok first - and of course it is killing me to have to fire up XP to write this message, sure would love to have my Linux back! TIA, Paul
Paul T. Ahlstedt wrote:
XP works fine as does Suse seem to except that when I open KPPP to connect to the internet with my PCMCIA card modem, I get a warning window that says that I do not have sufficient permission to do that, and to make sure that ppp is owned by root and that the SUID bit is set. What the heck does that mean? It means kppp wants the ppp daemon to have root privileges to be able to access the hardware, etc. that it needs to. I would suggest adding the following to /etc/permissions.local, and afterwards running SuSEconfig (as root) to reset the permissions.
/usr/sbin/pppd root.dialout 4755 After this, kppp should work. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2005-06-22 at 15:08 -0700, Paul T. Ahlstedt wrote:
What it is exactly is that I just set up Suse 9.2 Professional on my laptop dual boot with XP. XP works fine as does Suse seem to except that when I open KPPP to connect to the internet with my PCMCIA card modem, I get a warning window that says that I do not have sufficient permission to do that, and to make sure that ppp is owned by root and that the SUID bit is set.
The problem is not related to hardware, or windows, and has indeed been commented here pretty often. It is telling you directly that the permissions of the pppd daemon are set wrong (meaning '/usr/sbin/pppd'). In the past, I solved the issue by editing "/etc/permissions.local", and adding the line: /usr/sbin/pppd root.dialout 6754 or similar. Then, you have to run "SuSEconfig --module permissions" as root to set it up. This requires also that in file "/etc/sysconfig/security" you have: CHECK_PERMISSIONS="set" There may be other solutions (I don't suppose SuSE expects everybody to do that), and, there might be other problems. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFCufNntTMYHG2NR9URAvTAAJ9kV7bYU6zp34WJJBqSXtd9UPzhvACeLBJL 6YgD//KelDr0kDkAnufbemE= =rGYo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Carlos E. R. -
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Paul T. Ahlstedt