Hi all,
I'm still stuck with my original problem of dialing my ISP as a user
other than root. The system is a Mac clone Power Center Pro 180 with 112
mB of RAM and Linux is on a 1.2 gB drive with a 200 mB partition for a
minimal Mac OS. I am running LinuxPPC 2000 with the Gnome GUI.
Red Hat dialer applet works perfectly as long as I'm logged in as root
and the connection holds as I log out and go back as a user; it's just a
nuisance to do this.
When I try to establish a connection as user "tom" using the Red Hat
Dialer applet, it asks if I want to connect to ppp or loopback (I choose
ppp), there is a pause, and everything returns to the previous state. As
"root," a window appears with a moving indicator, the modem dials and
makes the connection, and the connection window then disappears. I
monitor the connection with another applet, and that works fine in
either login state. I can disconnect as "root" but not as "tom." As
"root," a popup text from the monitor applet asks if I want to
disconnect from ppp0; when logged in as "tom," the popup text does not
appear.
At the suggestion of Lawson Whitney on this group, pppd is owned by
root, has all root permissions and I even added my user (tom) to the
root group. I also tried changing the group of pppd to users and to
pppusers, with no effect. The group for the modem device (/dev/ttyS0) is
tty. I tried changing that to root with no effect. I did these things
with Linuxconf.
I am having no luck giving user "tom" access to Linuxconf, either. The
printer is behaving the same way as the modem, with access from root but
not from user "tom."
On a tip from a Web FAQ on Linux, I went into a terminal emulator as
root and tried:
chown root /usr/sbin/pppd
chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/pppd
with no effect.
There surely must be a way to do all this. Maybe it's something
peculiar to LinuxPPC, but otherwise it seems to be the same as Red Hat,
and the Red Hat logo comes up on login.
Help?
-- Tom Dove
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