Re: Gnome PPP dial-up problems

[Jonathan <gardnerj pro-usa net>]

Well, I did the setuid on pppd (which is located at /usr/sbin/ not just /sbin) but
as soon as I click on "connect" I get the error that the "pppd daemon has died"
pap-secrets seems fine also, besides I wouldn't expect that to cause a problem
until I was trying to authenticate. This is immediate, upon pressing connect. :-(
could the location of pppd be the problem? Gnome-ppp looking for it at /sbin while
it's really at /usr/sbin?

Jonathan

Cody Russell wrote:

> No it doesn't. I'm not familiar enough with the inner workings of
> gnome-ppp yet, or else I would fix this, but gnome-ppp requires that
> /sbin/pppd be setuid. Your /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file must also be
> configured the way I described in order to use gnome-ppp. If kppp is
> working fine for you, there may not be much reason to switch. But if you
> do want to switch, try that and let me know if it doesn't work.
>
> Cody
>
> On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Jonathan wrote:
>
> > Well I tried installing rp3 but it led me on an unending list of failed
> > dependencies. Everytime I'd try to install or update the appropriat rpm I'd
> > get more I'd have to do. It finally came down to needing an updated lib for
> > the updated timeconfig, for the updated initscripts and it complained about
> > the fact that the old lib was needed by stuff and the new lib conflicted with
> > the old. I've no idea how I'm supposed to go on from there, so for now I'm
> > still using kppp.
> > The fact that I can use kppp suggests that my pppd and modem access is ok.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> > Cody Russell wrote:
> >
> > > If you're using Red Hat Linux, you might check out Red Hat's PPP dialer,
> > > rp3. It's a little more polished than gnome-ppp.
> > >
> > > Otherwise, you can still get gnome-ppp working. You need to check and see
> > > if you have a file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets setup. It should contain a line
> > > such as:
> > >
> > > username        remote  password
> > >
> > > The remote tag can be any identifier you want. It must correspond to the
> > > "Remote Name" entry in gnome-ppp's properties.
> > >
> > > Then chmod u+s /sbin/pppd and make sure you have proper access to your
> > > modem device. I think that should work. If not, let me know what
> > > /var/log/messages says.
> > >
> > > Cody Russell
> > >
> > > On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Jonathan wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'd like to wean myself away from as many kde apps as possible, but
> > > > I find I have to use kppp because the Gnome PPP utility dies as soon as
> > > > I try to dial. I get everything configured and then press connect and
> > > > I get a crashing sound and an error message. Any ideas what could be
> > > > causing this.
> > > >
> > > > Also, While I use Netscape Mail for most of my email, since it only
> > > > allows one POP mail account, I have to use another utility here agin
> > > > kmail seems to fit the bill best, except when I want to click on link
> > > > and it brings up all the kde icons. I'd like to use Balsa, but that
> > > > doens't seem to be able to send via SMTP. It looks like the option is
> > > > there, but I cannot choose it. Is this just not usable yet?
> > > >
> > > > Jonathan
> > > >
> > > > PS I had thought that I needed to use the kde CD player, but just now
> > > > the Gnome CD player worked and in fact brought up the CDDB info that the
> > > > kde player seemed unable to.
> > > >
> > > >
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