[Techtalk] PPP & Slackware

[Jennifer Davis]

That was the solution I came up with.  I did an extensive search on the
archives of alt.os.slackware.  The good news is that it works.

Thanks for he help


Jenn

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Zohar, Itai wrote:

> 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
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> 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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