You might consult the logs to be sure on this ... but it sounds like a
permissions problem. Make sure pppd has the suid bit set (as root, type
"chmod +s /whatever_the_path_is/pppd"). Note that this can be a security
issue -- you don't always want ordinary users to be able to take a ppp
connection up and down -- so consider whether this is right for your
particular circumstances or not.
Alternative -- if you only want a *specific* user to do this -- is to use
sudo . The man pages for sudo and sudoers will get you started, and we
discusses the sudo program on this list only a day or two ago.
At 08:04 AM 9/6/99 -0400, 1stFlight ! wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When dialing to my ISP as root the connect works perfectly, if I log
>in as a normal user and su to root the connection works fine but if I
>log in as myself and attempt to use it, it informs me that the pppd
>daemon died unexpectedly also saying "Timeout expired while waiting for
>the PPP interface to come up" (this occurs within .1 minutes) . I'm
>thinking the regular user launched account is trying to write to some
>file that it doesn't have permissions to. But I've no idea which one it
>is.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
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