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Re: ppp: /dev/cua1: permission denied
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dwight Johnson)
Mon Nov 18 07:08:46 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 04:08:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Dwight Johnson <djohnson@olympus.net>
To: "Subhas C. Roy" <subhas@pobox.com>
cc: Red Hat List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <199611180748.CAA28077@zippy.concentric.net>
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On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Subhas C. Roy wrote:
> > Since upgrading to 4.0 my ppp script only works from root.
> > When I try to execute it as a user, I get:
> >
> > ppp: /dev/cua1: Permission denied
>
> I had some struggle with that. The usual remedy to this problem is:
> chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd. However that didn't help me. Then I found
> out that the PPP-HOWTO (I based my chat script on it) had a bug: I
> needed to replace "chat" in the ppp-on-dialer script by
> /usr/sbin/chat. That fixed the problem. A non-root user does not have
> /usr/sbin on the default command path. That's why ppp was working from
> root only. So make sure that pppd and chat etc commands are invoked
> with their full pathnames in the scripts.
I have this in my scripts:
if /usr/sbin/chat \
ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT BUSY "" ATZ OK \
ATDT$PHONE CONNECT "" ogin: $USER ssword: \\q$PASSWORD
and
/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/$DEVICE &
as well as:
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 74580 Aug 29 10:33 /usr/sbin/pppd
I still get:
ppp: /dev/cua1: Permission denied
Dwight Johnson
djohnson@olympus.net
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