Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-02 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Thursday 02 October 2003 17:57, you wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:57, you wrote: I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-10-01 Thread cr
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:11, cr wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:52, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: Hi! On Sat Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: but I couldn't

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-10-01 Thread cr
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:32, J Y wrote: Hi, I did the following: Copy /etc/ppp/peers/provider as /etc/ppp/peers/orcon and edit the file 'orcon' to suit (e.g. include 'noauth', and in my case comment out the sample chat script # connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider )

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
Thanks and where is group dip located? I did a whereis and locate for dip but got hundrends of files. Really thanks again. Quoting cr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:32, J Y wrote: Hi, I did the following: Copy /etc/ppp/peers/provider as /etc/ppp/peers/orcon and edit the

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-10-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello J Y ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Quoting cr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm no expert at all, but for what it's worth, my file /etc/ppp/peers/orcon is as follows: -rw-r-1 root dip 580 Oct 1 10:28 orcon (I didn't set any of that specially, it was just what the sample

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added myself to pppusers and dialout too. And the very same message: Can't open options file

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread John Hasler
J Y writes: Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a shot. I'm out of ideas. Run pppconfig as root to configure ppp. Use pon to start the connection and poff to stop it. If you require a GUI install gpppon. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
I tried some other things like 1) uncommenting the auth line in /etc/ppp/options I tried to apt-get install ppp and the response was the current version is the most recent. I ran linuxconf and made sure I was in the ppp group-I am. I also uncommented debug in /etc/ppp/ttyS4 options. That's my

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
Sorry John I some how sent this 1st message toy ou instead of to the list. I only realized it when the post didn't appear. My apologies. Quoting John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: J Y writes: Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a shot. I'm out of ideas.

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello J Y ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I tried some other things like 1) uncommenting the auth line in /etc/ppp/options I tried to apt-get install ppp and the response was the current version is the most recent. I ran linuxconf and made sure I was in the ppp group-I am. My Debian system does

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-09-30 Thread J Y
Hi, I did the following: Copy /etc/ppp/peers/provider as /etc/ppp/peers/orcon and edit the file 'orcon' to suit (e.g. include 'noauth', and in my case comment out the sample chat script # connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider ) Then, to use the 'call' option with

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-29 Thread J Y
I don't know minicom at all. I've never used it. I have been thinking that I'm an idiot lately since I can't resolve this problem. I don't think it has anything to do with my isp or I wouldn't be able to connect with SuSE 8.1 (yuck) Win ME, and tonight I installed slackware 9.0 just 15 minutes

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-29 Thread cr
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 00:58, John Hasler wrote: cr writes: Other question - what's the 'proper' way to give a user (me) access to ppp? Add the user to the dip group. It is not necessary to add the user to dialout as pppd opens the device while running as root. Thanks! I added myself to

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-29 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! Quoting cr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The obvious 'fix' of adding myself to group 'root' is, I think, not a good idea ;) Na, not a good idea ;-) However I seem to have fixed it - I'll include this in case it helps anyone: /etc/ppp/options says: # Require the peer to authenticate itself

Re: : Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-28 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:59:25PM -0800, J Y wrote: After adding 'noauth' to /etc/ppp/options kppp still fails with this message: Sep 27 13:00:46 deblnx pppd[1153]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself Sep 27 13:00:46 deblnx pppd[1153]: but I couldn't find any suitable

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-28 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 04:11:49AM +1200, cr wrote: Curiously though, /etc/ppp/options still has 'auth' in it, while /etc/ppp/peers/provider has 'noauth' (and already did, I think, even when I was having that 'drop-out' problem mentioned above). I don't know how the two

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-28 Thread John Hasler
cr writes: Other question - what's the 'proper' way to give a user (me) access to ppp? Add the user to the dip group. It is not necessary to add the user to dialout as pppd opens the device while running as root. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up

2003-09-28 Thread J Y
I seem to be batting zero. So I'll take a break. And come back to it. Adding noauth from kppp or internet dialer as described below just got me a 'ppp daemon died unexpectedly' message and the details box said that noauth is only available to root. removing noauth from the kppp setup (I edited

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up+

2003-09-28 Thread J Y
I forgot to add, sorry, that I tried all of this i.e. pon, wvdial , kppp logged in as root with identical results. Thanks. Quoting J Y [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I seem to be batting zero. So I'll take a break. And come back to it. Adding noauth from kppp or internet dialer as described below just

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-28 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: Hi Can anyone give me a clue as to what I am doing wrong? I keep getting failure to authenticate messages. the following is from the kppp details box: Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to authenticate

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up

2003-09-28 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Sep 28, 2003 at 10:21:36AM -0800, J Y wrote: When I type pon highstream.net the modem dials up (as it does with kppp and wvdial) then it just sits there. No messages. when I type poff the terminal message is no pppd running and none stopped. Maybe the defaultroute is not setup

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up

2003-09-28 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Sep 28, 2003 at 10:21:36AM -0800, J Y wrote: and wvdial) then it just sits there. No messages. when I type poff the terminal message is no pppd running and none stopped. I should read your post to the end ;-) Please provide the complete log information from pppd with debug turned

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-27 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sat Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]:

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-27 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: I went to kde/kppp site and read there that commenting out the 'auth' line in /etc/ppp/otions could be a fix but it wasn't. So I copied the /etc/ppp/options file from my SuSE distro but that didn't work either. Do you still get

: Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-27 Thread J Y
happens there isn't even any screen output with 'pon highstream.net I do appreciate the responses. I will keep working on it. Thanks JY Subject: Re: pppd daemon dies To: J Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: I went to kde/kppp site and read

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-27 Thread cr
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:52, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: Hi! On Sat Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for