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Re: ppp: /dev/cua1: permission denied
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Mon Nov 18 09:52:32 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 09:44:47 -0500
From: ray@fred.net (Ray Curtis)
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Dwight Johnson writes:
> 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
You say everything here except the permissions on /dev/cua1 ? Take a
look at them:
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 5, 65 Dec 31 1979 /dev/cua1
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email: ray@fred.net
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