Re: Gnome PPP dial-up problems

[Craig Orsinger <orsingerc epg-gw1 lewis army mil>]

On 29-Nov-99 Dave Reed wrote:
> I've been using gnome-ppp for a long time w/o any problems.  What does
> seem to be necessary to use it is having an empty /etc/ppp/options
> file (this is mentioned in the README file for gnome-ppp).  The other
> things to check (and may already have been mentioned in this thread):
> 
> 1. pppd needs to be suid to use it as a regular user
> 
        I got around this by using 'sudo' to run a script on my
laptop. Not the cleanest or easiest solution, but it gets around a
few configuration difficulties. I have a list of sudo-users called
"PPPUSERS" that contains the names of any users who might be using
PPP. Just remember to make your scripts read-only!

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Date: 29-Nov-99  Time: 13:07:23

Craig Orsinger                  (email: <orsingerc@epg-gw1.lewis.army.mil>)
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