Hello. This is not a strait ham problem but I am sure somone of you can tell. What is wrong with pppd when I use ppp-on as a users. I have made links in /bin to /usr/sbin/pppd and /usr/sbin/ppp-on As user:- <-----------------------------------------------> [hala@sm6tpn hala]$ pppd pppd: using the name option requires root privilege [hala@sm6tpn hala]$ ppp-on pppd: using the name option requires root privilege [hala@sm6tpn hala]$ su - Password: [root@sm6tpn /root]# ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 120020 Apr 10 1999 /usr/sbin/pppd [root@sm6tpn /root]# pppd [root@sm6tpn /root]# ping 192.176.59.70 PING 192.176.59.70 (192.176.59.70): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.176.59.70: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=202.0 ms 64 bytes from 192.176.59.70: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=210.0 ms 64 bytes from 192.176.59.70: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=190.0 ms --- 192.176.59.70 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 190.0/200.6/210.0 ms [root@sm6tpn /root]# ppp-off ppp0 link terminated [root@sm6tpn /root]# <-----------------------------------------------> Hope you can help me. 73 de Hakan
