[techtalk] ppp as user: still strange problems

Matthias Holschneider Matthias.Holschneider at univ-rennes1.fr
Fri Nov 19 15:17:01 EST 1999


Dear experts please help.

I have installed ppp and it works. However as ordinary user I get strange
error messages.

Here my setup:

login : hols

I have created a group pppusers in which my login figures

more /etc/group 
...
pppusers:x:101:hols,nagie,root

the files for ppp look as follows

-rwxr-x---   1 root     pppusers      /etc/ppp/options
-rwxr-x---   1 root     pppusers      /etc/ppp/pppondialer #my chat script
-rwxr-x---   1 root     pppusers      /usr/bin/pppoff
-rwxr-x---   1 root     pppusers      /usr/bin/pppon      
-rwxr-x---   1 root     pppusers      /usr/sbin/chat
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     pppusers      /usr/sbin/pppd ->pppd-2.2
-rws--x---   1 root     pppusers      /usr/sbin/pppd-2.2
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4,  65 /dev/ttyS1

Now as super user the sripts /usr/bin/pppon and /usr/bin/pppoff work fine
But as user hols (who belongs to the group pppusers
[cat /etc/group  ---> ...  pppusers:x:101:hols,nagie,root]) the script
starts running (=no authorization error) but it does not work. I get the
following error in my log-files

Nov 19 10:51:57 scorpion pppd[182]: pppd 2.2.0 started by hols, uid 1000
Nov 19 10:51:58 scorpion pppd[182]: Connect script failed
Nov 19 10:51:58 scorpion pppd[182]: Connect script failed
 

What can I do?

Thank you very much for your help,

cheers, Matthias
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