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Hi All, |
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I eventually decided to set up my winmodem (hcfpci) to be able to |
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send/receive faxes and as a backup for when adsl goes down. I noticed that |
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a group called dialout was created: |
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dialout:x:20:root |
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The Dial up Gentoo Wiki says that for security purposes one should create a |
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new ppp group and add those users who will be allowed to dial up. It also |
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suggests to alter the original access rights of /usr/sbin/pppd: |
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-r-s--x--x 1 root root 238244 Sep 17 08:29 /usr/sbin/pppd |
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to 4550: |
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-r-sr-x--- 1 root ppp 238244 Sep 17 08:29 /usr/sbin/pppd |
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Any idea what the dialout group is there for? |
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Also, when I want to dial up which is the 'right' sequence to bring up: |
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1) /etc/init.d/hcfpci start |
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2) /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start |
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or it doesn't matter which one comes up first? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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