Scott Barker said: > Well, I guess I have no explanation, then. But it's working for me. Perhaps I > ran it as root once, and the other machines on the network all remember the > address that was being arp'ed for?
Just noticed why it was working -- I had a wrapper program to handle users changing their password, or starting ppp. I made that wrapper suid root. That's not very secure (it was a quick hack at the time), so I just changed it to a simple shell script, and guess what -- ppp didn't work anymore. It only started working again when I made pppd suid root. [open mouth, remove foot :)] Now, rather than wait for everyone to decide on a group name, I've just created a pppin group, and put the ppp users into it. Sorry for any confusion... -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 5 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail ] [ (we have a sometimes sporadic connection to the internet) ] "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." - Western Union internal memo, 1876.