PPPD Problem

Chip Atkinson (chip@pupman.com)
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:00:14 -0600


Try checking the permissions of pppd.  You should chmod it to 4755 or
4555 like so:
chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/pppd
This should work.  It worked for me when I had the exact same problem.

Chip

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On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Tom Reinertson wrote:

> This probably isn't a fair question to ask here, but I expect most
> everyone here already knows the answer so I hope it's okay to ask
> anyway.
> 
> I faithfully followed the AutoPPP instructions for allowing Windows
> workstations to dial into my server.  Dialing from Windows works just
> fine.  Now, however, I can't dial in from a Linux workstation.   I
> believe the mgetty portion is correct, it's just the pppd portion.
> 
> The error that appears on the terminal window is as follows:
> 
> Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
> Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an i686
> 
> 
> C3!login: ppp
> Password:
> Last login: Fri Sep 17 13:54:43 on ttyS0
> -pppd: Can't open options file /home/ppp/.ppprc: Operation not permitted
> 
> 
> 
> My mgetty log file, /etc/mg.ttyS0 is as follows:
> 
> --
> 09/19 19:20:05 ##### data dev=ttyS0, pid=2034, caller=, conn='115200',
> name='', cmd='/bin/login', user='ppp'
> 
> --
> 09/19 19:20:06 yS0  TIOCMBIS failed: Input/output error
> 09/19 19:20:06 yS0  cannot turn off soft carrier: Input/output error
> 09/19 19:20:06 yS0  tcgetattr failed: Input/output error
> 09/19 19:20:06 yS0  cannot get TIO: Input/output error
> 09/19 19:24:02 ##### data dev=ttyS0, pid=2123, caller=none,
> conn='115200', name='', cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd', user='/AutoPPP/'
> 
> 
> Note that the entry at time 19:24:02 is when I dialed in with Windows.
> The entries for time 19:20:xx are when I tried dialing in with Linux.
> 
> I would be very grateful for any help on this one.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
>