Re: another newbie question


Subject: Re: another newbie question
From: Evan Read (eread@netaccess.co.nz)
Date: Fri Nov 12 1999 - 05:02:41 MST



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on 12/11/99 18:28, Ana Cruz and Joe DiCastro at anacruz@ameritech.net wrote=
:

> on 11/11/99 11:36 PM, Evan Read at eread@netaccess.co.nz wrote:
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>> Sounds like you need to set the UID bit. This will allow kppp to run as
>> root (which it has to) even when launched by a user.
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>> If you want to use the KDE interface, go into /usr/bin and right mouse c=
lick
>> (or hit keypad "=3D" key) on kppp and find "Permissions" in the box that c=
omes
>> up.
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>> Tick the Set UID box. Also make sure that kppp is executable to owner,
>> group AND others.
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>> on 12/11/99 12:26, Joseph Clark at josephcl@yahoo.com wrote:
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>>> So, after taking all the advice I got the other day, I
>>> did successfully get my YDL-powerd IMac to dial into
>>> my ISP via ppp.
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>>> However, it only works from my root account, not from
>>> my standard user account. I'm using KDE and kppp to
>>> dial in, and when I open it as a mere user, it says
>>> somethign about pppd not being installed. Which it is.
>>> Also, the configuration for my ISP that I created as
>>> root is not available to me as a user, so I had to
>>> re-enter information. My question is: Is there an easy
>>> way to make my "preferences" that I set up as root
>>> available to some or all users? And why would pppd be
>>> available to root but not to a user. Thanks for any
>>> help you can offer.
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>>> I promise, months from now I will come back and give
>>> advice to NEW newbies. I swear.
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>>> thanks,
>>> -joe
>>> __________________________________________________
>>> Do You Yahoo!?
>>> Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
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> Evan,=20
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> Don't worry about it. It's happened to a bunch of us. Make sure you reboo=
t
> the whole system(CNTL+CMD+POWER) after the partition table fails to write=
.
> After you're loaded up again in MacOS, jump over to Linux again and just
> verify that the partition table was written as you chose. You should then=
 be
> able to finish your install.
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> I spent all day trying to get YDL to install on my 8600 because I was
> getting the same error. As long as you fully reboot after the partition m=
ap
> fails to write you should be all set.
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> Joe=20
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What you talking about? ;)

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"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

=8B Edmund Burke, 19th-century philosopher



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