[H-GEN] pppd

[Anthony Towns]

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On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Ross Camm wrote:

> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32)

Your mailer appears to be buggy. It's not inserting a blank line
between the headers and the body, which (in some cases) makes sendmail
and various mail readers interpret the first k (for k=1 usually) lines
as header information.
 
> I have installed a redhat 5 distrubution recently, without X. I have
> succesfully set up pppd and chat scripts, so that root can dial up. I have
> the chmod u+s pppd, in the hope that other users may dialup. pppd comes
> back straight away and tells other users that the connect script failed,
> via the system log.

Are your serial ports (/dev/ttyS[0-9], /dev/cua[0-9]) chmod
appropriately so user's can access them? I believe the recommended way
opf doing things is to have a dialin-users group, or similar.

> The scripts are in /etc/ppp/scripts, they are all readable by everyone, and
> trying chmod u+s to the scripts doen't seem to work.

I've read that suid scripts are a security hole, and thus
Linux/bash/something doesn't do anything with suid shell scripts.
 
Add '-v' to your chat line and look through the system logs for more
information on what's going wrong.

Cheers,
aj

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