On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Tom Dove wrote:
> 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
>
Oh... and delete /home/tom/.kde/share/apps/kfm/magic before trying KDE again.
For Gnome, I don't know.
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