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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Setting up group for ppp and dial up
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:44:46
Message-Id: dgi9d3$dnv$1@sea.gmane.org
1 Hi All,
2
3 I eventually decided to set up my winmodem (hcfpci) to be able to
4 send/receive faxes and as a backup for when adsl goes down. I noticed that
5 a group called dialout was created:
6 ===============================
7 dialout:x:20:root
8 ===============================
9
10 The Dial up Gentoo Wiki says that for security purposes one should create a
11 new ppp group and add those users who will be allowed to dial up. It also
12 suggests to alter the original access rights of /usr/sbin/pppd:
13 ===============================
14 -r-s--x--x 1 root root 238244 Sep 17 08:29 /usr/sbin/pppd
15 ===============================
16
17 to 4550:
18 ===============================
19 -r-sr-x--- 1 root ppp 238244 Sep 17 08:29 /usr/sbin/pppd
20 ===============================
21
22 Any idea what the dialout group is there for?
23
24 Also, when I want to dial up which is the 'right' sequence to bring up:
25 1) /etc/init.d/hcfpci start
26 2) /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start
27
28 or it doesn't matter which one comes up first?
29 --
30 Regards,
31 Mick
32
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up group for ppp and dial up Chris White <chriswhite@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up group for ppp and dial up maxim wexler <blissfix@×××××.com>