Re: switching to gnome-ppp

["Michael" <mikejunior geocities com>]

To use gnome-ppp as a regular user, the following steps can be used as
reference-
1. Create a new group call ppp, or whatever you want
2. Assign the users to that group.
3. In /usr/sbin or /sbin, change the mode of pppd to -rwsr-x---, ie. chmod
u+s pppd;chmod g+x pppd
4. Change the owner of /etc/resolv.conf to root:ppp, ie. chown root:ppp
/etc/resolv.conf
5. Change the permission of /etc/resolv.conf to -rw-rw-r--, ie. chmod ug+w
/etc/resolv.conf
6. Use gnome-ppp.
7. There should be no problem this way. The security, though, is not
concerned but it should be save enough for normal use.

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Perry <mperry@tsoft.com>
To: Gnome List <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 8:22 AM
Subject: switching to gnome-ppp


> Howdy all-
>
> I decided to switch over to gnome-ppp but the serial port ttyS1 gets its
> permissions changed each time I reboot. I want to run gnome-ppp as a
regular
> user.  Is there a faq on this somewhere which will tell me what I need to
> set and where to not have the login change the permissions on that
> particular tty device?
>
> Thanks.
>
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