[plug] PPPD

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Andrew  Barbara wrote:

> Hi,
> is there a way to dial a connection with pppd as a non privliged user, im getting the following error...
> 
> /usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not setuid-root

CReate a group (I'll call mine dialout)
cd /usr/sbin
chown root:dialout
chmod 2750 pppd

Then run the script. pppd should now work.

every distro has a differnt way of doing it properly.  If you told us the
distro you are running we may be able to help in more detail.

Yours Tony.

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