On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Richard Davies wrote:
> 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.
>
Hi..
I got over this by using wvdial...I understand there is a glitch on the kpp
dialout as a user..There has been quite a few mails about this on the suse -e
list...
Regards
Ted
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