On Saturday 21 February 2004 22:18, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 02/22/2004 04:45 AM, C Hamel wrote: <SNIP> The correct way is to put the desired settings in /etc/permissions.local, which will survive upgrades, etc. AFTER adding it, run SuSEconfig. Now you are done. No need for boot.local or cron. Even if you replace the ppp package, since Yast (and you if done manually) will automatically run SuSEconfig which will correct any permissions problem. A reboot should not change permissions. A SuSEconfig run, say after an install, etc., may change the permissions, which is what I suspect. Try it. I have the following in my permissions.local for kppp to work and I use it every day, updated KDE every version from the original 3.1.1 to the present 3.2 (on 8.2), and have not needed to change anything else. /usr/sbin/pppd root.dialout 4755
I copied the above line into the /etc/permissions.local file & SuSEconfig stated that it set the permissions for that file. I understand the concept, now --I think-- but am a bit confused concerning the choice of the number 4755 over any other number. Thanks... ...CH