AutoPPP login.config : Permission denied

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Hello again...

This problem disappeared when I changed my my mgetty version from
1.1.5 to 1.0.0. AutoPPP login now works fine. So I suppose the 
problem should be considered a bug report for the experimental release.
BTW for the record, my /usr/local filesystem is local, not NFS.

Thanks for your help...

Pete

Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Peter McDonald wrote:
> > I am running mgetty from /etc/inittab. The relevant line is:
> 
> Ok.
> 
> > d1:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -n 1 -m '"" AT&FM0S0=0 OK' ttyS1
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> > I experimented with runlevels... 2345 seemed to be the only one to auto-
> > answer the phone, without generating 'd1 spawning too fast' errors.
> 
> Hmmm. The numbers definitely have nothing to do with the error message --
> but if you specify numbers that are different than your current runlevel,
> init just won't start mgetty, so it won't answer the phone. Check the
> "man init" man page.
> 
> > If I attack the problem from the other direction, by opening up
> > permissions
> > of login.config, the logfile error becomes:
> >
> > login: '/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config' must be root/0600:
> 
> Sure, as for security reasons, the file must not be world readable.
> 
> Is, by chance, your /usr/local filesystem mounted over NFS? If yes,
> make sure that root has "root privileges" (or put the login.config
> on a local hard disk), because on an NFS file system, root has no
> privileges, and this is about the only thing I can imagine why opening
> the file would fail...
> 
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