[Gllug] Can't connect to the Internet.

[Dermot Moynihan]

Walid,
Brilliant! Did the job! Am currently sending this logged on as a regular user, 
running wvdial. 
Much appreciated. It was a bit nervy being logged on as root all the time :)
Dermot

On Sunday 10 November 2002 12:43, Walid Shaari wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 12:37, Dermot Moynihan wrote:
> > > chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
> >
> > Should that u+s be u+x by any chance?
> > With x standing for execute by user.
> > I've just gone and got myself Linux in a Nutshell (as I seem to be in for
> > the long haul) and s seems to be "set user (or group) ID".
> > By the way, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Just being careful and
> > trying to learn stuff.
> >chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd

> > > but do an ls -l on pppd first and check what perms it have
> >
> > OK. That gave:
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     dialout    211992 2002-09-09 20:32 pppd
>
> Its u+s .for setuid which means the program will run as root even if it
> is called by a no-root user :)
>
>
> Walid


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