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Re: ppp: /dev/cua1: permission denied

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim akens)
Mon Nov 18 13:52:50 1996

Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 13:41:28 -0500 (EST)
From: jim akens <akens@sssg1.whoi.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961118040200.408C-100000@inspire.olympus.net>
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THis could also be a lock problem.  Look in /usr/spool/locks or 
/usr/spool/uucp for a file that is named something like: LCK..cua0.  I am 
new to redhat.  This is where locks are located in slackware.

On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Dwight Johnson wrote:

> 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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