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Connect by ppp in a user account
Name: Android Date: January 25, 2002 at 19:00:21 Pacific
Comment:
Hi, I usually connect to my isp as root in the console, type ppp-go -c, wait untill it connects, exit root and log in as the user account I made, what I want to know is how to connect to my isp without being root since I cant connect if I'm not root and waste a lot of time when I could be in my user account and type ppp-go -c in the terminal. Any ideas people?
Name: nexus Date: January 28, 2002 at 00:52:20 Pacific
Reply:
To do what you want you need to ensure that the com port your modem is on is read/writable by a normal user 'chmod 666 /dev/'
Also the command pppd needs to be executed by root. So as root go to /usr/sbin (I think that is where pppd lives) and do 'chmod u+s pppd' that will execute teh command as if it had root priv.
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