I think your problem lies in the permissions on the pppd file. It needs to
be
-rwsr-xr-x
to change it you would use:
chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
Try this and let us know how you go.
Regards
Bernhard
Evert Verhellen wrote:
> It seems that I have found my problem. Thanks for all feedback. When I
> login as root the connection does work :-) so all my scripts were right.
> For safety reasons I don't want to be root all the time so I normally
> login as myself (evert). In order to start the connection I use the su
> command (in a terminal window) to become root and then I launch the
> /etc/ppp/ppp-on script (in the same terminal window). In this situation
> the connection still won't work :-( I guess this problem is somehow
> related to file permissions. How should I solve this if I don't want to
> login as root every time?
>
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