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Re: only root can use pppd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au)
Wed Aug 21 22:17:13 1996
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 10:03:29 +1000
To: kimball@bayarea.net, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
From: tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au
Brian Kimball <kimball@bayarea.net> wrote:
> 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.
[root]# chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
