as root, do this:
chmod +s /put_the_path_here/pppd
(substituting the real path, of course). That should do it. "man chmod" for
details.
At 12:44 AM 6/12/99 +0200, ali wrote:
>i've got ppp 2.3.7 running on RH6.0. on a single desktop machine.
>what I want to do is connect to my isp with my user account ie. not with
>the root account. (i can successfully connect to my ISP using my root
>account)
>
>to do this i'm using the 'call' option in pppd but this doesn't work.
>i get the error: 'must be root to run pppd, since it is not setuid-root'
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