[LUG] internet crash kppp - internet dialer continued

["Paul Sutton" <psutton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Thanks for the help,

I tried the following as suggested.

chmod 7755 /usr/sbin/pppd -

I then went to
kuser. - listed as usermanager.

this is where I am not sure what is going on.

I can find my user name in the list on the left,  If I select this and then
go to group - edit

then select groups.

I get a list of groups on the left,  and primary group - with paul as part
of a select list, on the right  - its there I don't need to select it,

If I click on users and add this to the box on the right,  click ok, then
save and exit.  I then logged off and tried to dial up again,  it still
crashes,  so I log back in as root,
and goto kuser again,  following the steps above,  the box is blank where I
added users eariler,

I also changed kppp to 7755 as I figured that as I was using kppp to dial up
this needs the same permissions etc.  so it's now the same by default its
-rwxr-xr-x
which I make out to be 755,  now it's
-rwsr-sr-t

for both kppp and pppd

it still does not work.

I have either not done something right, or something more deep down is
wrong,  what log files should I check to see what is happening.

also is there a way to add me to the users group from the command line,  as
this would rule out probs with kuser.

Thanks for the help

paul

>
> On my box i have to set pppd to SUID (chmod 7755 /sbin/pppd) for this to



> > > alt-F2 and xkill to get me out of this,  (much better than the windows
> > > method).
>
> Why ? i wonder what windows does ?? oh yeah, what happens when you throw
> hard things at windows people ??


> Paul: are you a member of the "users" group in linux, if you are not,
things
> will go pear shaped very quickly, i know redhat is a bugger for not doing
> this properly. You will need to log in as root to gain access to the user
> control panel thing (i forget where it is now DURRRRHHH !!!) ensure that
you
> (as a user of paul) are a member of the users group. log out and back in
as
> you, and that may help things !!!!
>
> Let me know how it went !!!
>
> Neil


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