Re: Configuring modem and connecting to the net

Chui Tey writes: I am a new user to Linux. I have installed the Debian base system so far. Part of that involved setting up the Connection configs to connect to my ISP. Now, what packages do I require to set up my external modem... ppp and pppconfig, which you already have as they are in

Re: Configuring modem and connecting to the net

[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: How do I assign the user (instead of the root) the right to dial up the connection? Do 'adduser user_name dip' to add user_name to the dip group and 'chmod g+x /etc/chatscripts' to correct a bug in the ppp package. bug? which bug? Never did that and I'm not

Re: Configuring modem and connecting to the net

Horacio writes: bug? which bug? Never did that and I'm not having any probs (AFAIK) with ppp. ppp2.3.5 was originally shipped with no group search permission on /etc/chatscripts. BTW, how can I give a normal user permission to use the smail/sendmail command? What are you trying to do? I

Re: Configuring modem and connecting to the net

[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: Horacio writes: BTW, how can I give a normal user permission to use the smail/sendmail command? What are you trying to do? I can think of no reason that a user would ever need to type 'smail' or 'sendmail'. I don't get it, I am supposed not to use root except

Re: Configuring modem and connecting to the net

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: Horacio writes: BTW, how can I give a normal user permission to use the smail/sendmail command? What are you trying to do? I can think of no reason that a user would eve r need to type 'smail' or 'sendmail'.