Re: [MiNT] pppd

[Mario Becroft <mb@tos.pl.net>]

On 10 Apr 1999, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> Does anybody here run pppd under anything else than root? If so, how
> do I get this working? If I start it from any of my non-root accounts
> it dials in correctly, but I get an error-message saying something like
> "can not link /dev/ttyb to ppp-device. Permission denied" and then it
> hangs up.

I found that I had to make pppd suid root, I don't know whether this is a
the best way but it seems to work.

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