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only root can use pppd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Kimball)
Wed Aug 21 20:36:39 1996
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:44:50 -0700
From: Brian Kimball <kimball@bayarea.net>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Hello. Subject line says it all. Permissions are all correct (as far
as I know). This is recorded in /var/log/messages:
Aug 21 15:17:15 kimball pppd[1438]: pppd 2.2.0 started by brian, uid 500
Aug 21 15:17:35 kimball pppd[1438]: Serial connection established.
Aug 21 15:17:36 kimball pppd[1438]: ioctl(PPPIOCGUNIT): Operation not
permitted
Aug 21 15:17:36 kimball pppd[1438]: ioctl(PPPIOCGDEBUG): Operation not
permitted
Aug 21 15:17:36 kimball pppd[1438]: Exit.
I had the debug option set, so I thought that might be causing it
(PPPIOCGDEBUG), but removing the debug option had no effect.
This is on a RedHat 3.0.3 system with the pppd rpm package installed.
Any ideas?
thanks,
Brian Kimball
