[plug] Debian newbie question re:permissions

[sol]

Thanks for the super prompt reply.
I probably should have mentioned that I have already edited /etc/group 
(sorry!) to no effect. Of course I'm new at this and could have got it 
wrong. I just added my user to the groups I wanted to access directly. 
For example:
dialout:x:20:sol
Is this correct? I'm still getting the same permission denied message. 
Should I be using chgrp or setuid?

Ta very much,

Sol

Simon Scott wrote:

> 	Add the user to the dialout group in /etc/groups
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 	From:	sol <solhanna at dingoblue.net.au> on 16/10/2001 11:02 AM
> 	Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
> 	To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
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> 	Subject:	[plug] Debian newbie question re:permissions
> 
> 	I've just migrated from SuSE to Debian and am settling in to the
> very 
> 	different (from the rpm distros) world of .deb - and I like what I
> see. 
> 	But I'm having some teething difficulties of an elementary sort.
> 
> 	One problem I haven't found a solution to in the manpages is with
> pon. I 
> 	set it up with pppconfig and went to run it and got a permission
> denied 
> 	for the modem which I promptly chmod'ed. Then I went to do this
> again 
> 	and I got this:
> 	/usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/options: Permission
> denied
> 
> 	So I tried chmod'ing this (to 711, then 744, then 777) and I'm still
> 
> 	getting the same error. I'm a little confused because I thought that
> 
> 	chmod was all that was needed to change permissions. I've also tried
> 
> 	chown without success.
> 	ls -l /etc/ppp/options gets:
> 	-rwxrwxrwx    1 root    dialout    12872 Oct 14 17:38
> /etc/ppp/options
> 
> 	I'm running pon as root which isn't such a good thing and I'd like
> to 
> 	change it so that I can run pon as a regular user.
> 
> 	thanks heaps,
> 
> 	Sol
> 
> 
> 
> 
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