According to Daniel Knapp: While burning my CPU.
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> > I've got ppp working at last, sort of. I use the app gnome-ppp
> > (current version, 0.2.5 or something like) to dial up and log in.
> > When I run this as root, it works, and the ppp session starts.
> > When I run it as a user, it dials, handshakes, gets through the
> > whole username and password process and then hangs...
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> That's no error. Only root may connect to the Internet via ppp and not a
> user. Don't forget that connecting to the Internet is an administration
> task.
Your signature says in so many words that you have an understanding of how
an operating system works, however you are wrong about the above like you
were when you said that _only_ harddrives get defined in /etc/fstab.
Reading the PPP-HOWTO should jog your memory about how "root" can change
permissions and manipulate whatever "root" wants to.
In this case its (as root).
chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
There are other things to do as well before a _USER_ can use ppp, i suggest
you read the section "Using PPP and root privileges" in the PPP-HOWTO.
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> -Dan
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Regards Richard.
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