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Can only establish a PPP conn. as root

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by jaolson40 4 views

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I'm running RedHat 7.1 with a WinModem (drivers I have) that is functioning properly. I can connect and log in to a remote network when logged in as root, but when logged in as a normal user, the modem dials, connects, handshakes, but never authenticates. When I turned debugging on, the dialer (or whichever process is used) never appears to send the password to finish the logon process. But only when I'm not logged in as root. As root, no problems whatsoever.

Anyone have any ideas?

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by jaolson40

I know that...what I needed was a workaround. I found one, too. I set the SUID of the PPP daemon to root, than granted all other accounts (it's a home machine, hey?) write and execute access to /etc/ppp. Everythings working now.

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