Re: ppp and gnome

["Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm redhat com>]

Tim Lewis writes:
>This is a ppp issue.  As root, go to /usr/sbin and ls pppd:

Actually, this is not true in this case.

>Ellis Gibson wrote:
>> I got my ppp conection to work with the gnome modem lights applet, that
>> is I can connect and disconnect when logged on as root. But it won't
>> work when logged on as a user, I set ppp to work with all users and
>> still nothing.
>> As root:   ifup ppp0 = connect
>>                   ifdown ppp0 = disconnect

Ellis is clearly using a Red Hat Linux system, and we intentionally do
not ship pppd setuid root in the interests of security, so Tim's
suggestion is a workaround for either a misconfiguration or a bug.

Ellis, does
 grep USERCTL /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0
print the line
USERCTL=yes

If it does not, then the behaviour you are seeing is expected; you can
change it with linuxconf, netcfg, or with (as root)
echo 'USERCTL=yes' >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0

If, however, that line is already there, then there is something wrong
with the scripts, and we should probably change to a different forum.
Since I would consider it a bug in that case, I'd suggest that the
Red Hat Bugzilla would be the best place: click on "Bug Track" at
http://developer.redhat.com/ and then the folks on the gnome list
won't have to follow along.  :-)

michaelkjohnson

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