That sounds about right. But I tried it... I created group 'dialup' then 'chown'ed
pppd as for 'dialup' and I get the same old error:
/usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not setuid-root
So what now? :) Any other ideas? How does that "sudo" utility work?
weston
Josef Wesley Wells wrote:
> So you don't have a cable modem any more.. man that has to be difficult.
>
> Debian has some really great dial up stuff. You should create a group
> dialup, and have dialup own the various important parts like the serial
> port and pppd. Then add anyone to dialup that will need to use the
> script.
>
> Much safer than the other methods.
>
> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Weston Sewell wrote:
>
> > If you insist :) It's been so long since I've had to use a real modem and
> > using my now 'reposessed' cable modem has fried my brain. I set up two scripts
> > 'utup' and 'utdown', simple bash scripts.
> >
> > utup:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > pppd connect "chat -f /etc/ut.chat" . . .
> >
> > utdown:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > killall pppd
> >
> > I'm quite sure there's a better way to kill the connection but I can't remembr
> > how and this works. At any rate, none of my users can use these scripts
> > because they don't have access to pppd. I 'chown'ed the scripts so they run
> > fine, but I get an error about only root being able to use pppd. This seems to
> > be a common theme in many of my scripting woes; I want to write a script that
> > controls something, and I want to give my users access to ONLY execution of the
> > script and have it do something useful. How is this done in general?
> >
> > weston
> >
> > "Joshua W. Scott" wrote:
> >
> > > OK, so here's the deal: I'm trying to set up netcat to serve up a file,
> > > let's call it "core", when someone connects to a port, let's say 23.
> > > The only problem I'm having is getting nc to hang up automatically after
> > > cat-ing the file to the remote host. Any ideas?
> > > OK,I've asked my quota of questions...it's time for someone to ask about
> > > setting up Telesys again.,.;)
> > > jws
> > >
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