Re: ppp and gnome

[Tim Lewis <talewis worldnet att net>]

Michael,
Thanks for the scoop on my suggestion.  I will note it in the future.
Tim


"Michael K. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> 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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