Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions
*- jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl wrote about "Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions"
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| > 2. Can PPP be initiated by a user rather than by the "root"?
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| Yes. If the user is part of the group which owns the dial out devices (with
| Debian, that's group "dialout").
Actually it is the dip group. All the ppp and chatscript config and
scripts need to be owned root.dip and pppd needs to be suid root(this
is the default I think).
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Brian
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