[Techtalk] PPP & Slackware

[Zohar, Itai]

I set the suid bit on /usr/sbin/pppd (chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/pppd).

Itai.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Davis [mailto:jsd at jenn.ca]
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 11:04 AM
To: Techtalk Mailing List
Subject: [Techtalk] PPP & Slackware


Hi,

	I just finished installing Slackware on a friend's PC today and
all seems to be running well.  Things are more or less better than expected.

	The only problem I am running into is PPP.  It connects fine, as
root, we can start
PPP and do all the PPP things that one needs, but as a user, using the
gnome dialler, I get an error message stating that the pppd daemon has
died unexpectedly, and I can't run ppp-go at all as a user.

	I assume that we are having permission issues, but since I never
have needed to use ppp dialup (I have pppoe adsl).  I was wondering if
anyone had any suggestions to solutions.  One solution is to write a shell
script that would start and stop it as root, but my scripting skill is not
there.  I was also hoping to apply this to disk mounting.  That is going
to be a tough concept to teach....oh well.

	Thanks in advance.

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