HI everyone,
I have just had to move due to work from Mandrake 7.0 to SuSE 7.0. Ever since
this move I have not been able to dial out and connect as user but can dial and
connect to the net as root. I presume that this is because I have done
something stupid here and I don't know what. Any assistance will be greatly
appreciated.
When starting kppp as user I get the following message
ERROR
This kernel has no ppp support, neither
compiled in nor via the kernel module
loader.
To solve this problem
* contact your system administrator
or
* install a kernel with ppp support
OK
Click on OK and it then throws the following error message
ERROR
pppd is not properly installed!
The pppd binary must be installed
with SUID bit set. Contract your
system administrator
OK
Running as root I get none of this it just connects and runs perfectly but I
don't want to be connected to the net as root.
The file ownership and permissions originally for pppd were
owner root
group dialout
rwxr-xr--
I have changed them to
rwxr-xr-x and set the SUID bit. (I presume that adding myself to the group
dialout would have achieved the same effect as adding execute permission for
others)
I no longer get the second error message when running as user but I still get
the no ppp support and can't connect to the net.
--
Regards
Richard
http://www.tollyboy.com
