Hi all-
I'm starting to get the hang of all this, but could use some more advice.
The core of my problem is that I can't get a dialup ppp connection without
going to root and jumping through some hoops, which makes linux decidedly
impractical for people like my girlfriend or houseguests to use it.
I have a pppd call + chat script that works great from root; the problem
is that it uses 'pppd [...] name alan [...]'. pppd's name option can only
be called from root, so I have tried to put my ISP login name and password
in my chat script, but to no avail. It kills it every time. It appears
that putting that info in the chat script starts some sort of
qualitatively different communication with my isp dialin server -- instead
of getting LCP requests and the like, I get a text prompt for a system
password -- which sure gets me nowhere! My ISP has been pretty un-helpful
on that note. Does anyone have any ideas at all on that one?
Second, which will be just as significant, is that when I run my script as
anything but root, I get the error that permission is denied on ttyS1, my
modem. There must be some way around that, right? -- but modifying the
permissions on ttyS1 doesn't do it. I do have kppd suid. How should I
proceed?
Thanks much for any advice-
-alan
