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Chris White wrote: |
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> On Sunday 18 September 2005 09:38, Mick wrote: |
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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 |
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>> that a group called dialout was created: |
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>> dialout:x:20:root |
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> yah, this looks like it sets permissions for the actual dialup scripts. |
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> That said you'll need to be a member of the dialout group. |
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Okey, dokey. I deleted the ppp group and added myself to dialout: |
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dialout:x:20:root,michael |
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>> The Dial up Gentoo Wiki says that for security purposes one should create |
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>> a new ppp group and add those users who will be allowed to dial up. It |
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>> also 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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> Yup, helps for security. |
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Unless one uses the dialout group for that purpose? |
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>> Any idea what the dialout group is there for? |
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> See above. |
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OK, but I cannot find 'dialout' in the group access rights |
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of /usr/bin/pppd . . . or anywhere else for that matter. |
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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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> If hcfpci needs net.ppp0, it will start it for you, visa-versa too. |
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Hmm, it doesn't seem to. I have to start /etc/init.d/hcfpci manually from a |
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root terminal. Thereafter kppp starts the pppd after the call is |
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connected. |
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Another problem I am running into is this: I can only connect and |
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authenticate using one dialup account, all the other ISP modems do not |
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answer the call. It just keeps ringing. Even on the ISP that I can |
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authenticate on, I cannot connect to the internet through them. I cannot |
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ping www.yahoo.com, I cannot connect to a website using a browser, etc. |
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All I can do is ping the IP address of the ISP. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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