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Re: Initiating pppd as a user
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Reed)
Sun Nov 1 14:51:53 1998
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 14:55:06 -0500
From: Dave Reed <dreed@capital.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981101104030.483A-100000@salmo> (message from Rich
Shepard on Sun, 1 Nov 1998 10:43:31 -0800 (PST))
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> From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
>
> On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Frank N. Stein wrote:
>
> > What are the permissions on /dev/modem _AND_ the /dev/<device_name>
> > that it's linked to? That's probably where the problem lies.
>
> I ran chmod u+s /dev/modem and chmod g+s /dev/modem (as root) and this is
> what I see with ls -la:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 19 10:05 /dev/modem -> cua2
>
> For /dev/cua2 this is the result:
>
> crwSrwSrw- 1 root uucp 5, 66 Oct 8 14:54 /dev/cua2
>
> Don't know why the /dev/modem link didn't show any change. Perhaps that
> because it's a soft link?
>
> BTW, after making these changes I still cannot invoke pppd as a user.
>
> Rich
>
> Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
> Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.
> 2404 SW 22nd Street
> Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 U.S.A.
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> rshepard@appl-ecosys.com
Here are my settings and it works for me:
ls -l /dev/modem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 29 09:32 /dev/modem ->
/dev/ttyS2
ls -l /dev/ttyS2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4, 66 Nov 1 14:30 /dev/ttyS2
ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 69084 Mar 25 1997 /usr/sbin/pppd*
Also, make certain your /usr/sbin directory is readble and executable
by everyone
:
cd /usr
ls -l | grep sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3072 Aug 28 11:41 sbin/
/dev/cua has been deprecated so you might want to start using
/dev/ttyS
Hope this helps.
Dave
dreed@capital.edu
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