Re: Gnome PPP dial-up problems

[Jonathan <gardnerj pro-usa net>]

Ok, I can dial now. I set the ttyS3 Permissions the way I was told and that was
the problem, funny that kppp doesn't have that problem. Anyway, now I've set
permissions and suid everything I'm supposed to but when I connect, I never
really connect. I'm sure I'm not authenticating for some reason. Am I supposed
to do anything in that 'script' area, I thought that PAP would do everything
automatically though.

Jonathan


bill.helke@cp.Novartis.com wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 01:54:12 , Jonathan wrote:
> "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?"
>
> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 08:47:42, Dave Reed replied:
> " 2. the permisions on the file that /dev/modem links to may need to be 644
> (it may not since pppd is suid, but it won't hurt if all your users should
> have access to the modem)."
>
> I reply here:
> This is very important.  Jonathan is seeing an IMMEDIATE kill of pppd on
> clicking the "Connect" button.  An immediate kill of pppd when using
> gnome-ppp is almost always caused by modem troubles.  /dev/modem (or
> /dev/ttyS1, dev/ttyS2,  etc. - i.e.: whatever device you are using for your
> modem and specifying in gnome-ppp) must have permissions opened up (666) for
> all users in order to make things work.
> Also, I've never put anything in my pap-secrets file, since gnome-ppp saves
> userid and password information to a config file in a subdirectory off of
> the user's home directory (this is really quite a beautiful idea - keeping
> your userid and password secure in your home directory rather than putting
> it in the pap-secrets file where others may find it!).
> See Jay Painter's EzPPP HowTo.  EzPPP was the Qt predecessor to gnome-ppp,
> but the preliminaries are the same to make the program work.  Here is the
> link:
> http://www.serv.net/~cameron/ezppp/howto.html
>
> Good luck.
>
> William F. Helke
> bill.helke@cp.novartis.com
>
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