AutoPPP login.config : Permission denied

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Hi,

Peter McDonald wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm. Very unlikely. If you compare the files, the "login.c" file should
be absolutely identical (line by line) between 1.0.0 and 1.1.5.

Must be something different in your 1.1.5 installation.

gert

> 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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