GNOME-PPP problem on Debian Sarge

[scpeckham]

I must have something setup incorrectly ... anyone have a clue as to what I need to do?
WVDIAL works only from ROOT (fails due to PPPD failing when not as ROOT).
Debian does not allow logon as ROOT and GNOME-PPP was written for Debian (or so I have read), so it follows that my setup is bad ...
Has anyone gotten this to work ... or should I be using diald instead?
Thanks!
I am using a desktop dialup internet connection, and am a fairly new Linux user.

[ericrun]

You need to add your user account to the group dialout so that the account has permissions to access the networking functions. I find that I also have to run the command

route -add default ppp0

as root to get my machine to use the dialed connection, although maybe gnome-ppp might handle this for you (I use wvdial with does not).

[venutip]

Debian does not allow logon as ROOT

Hi. I am new to Linux myself (< 1 week experience), but you actually can log in to Gnome as root. It's diabled by default, but if you go into the Settings menu (or Actions, don't remember which) there's a check box that says something like, "Allow root to log in from this menu".

Hope that helps.

[scpeckham]

Thanks for the effort, I was already in the dialout group (verifed that when I went to add it), and the route command did not seem to have any effect (still getting exit code 2 from pppd when not su to root).

I am pretty sure I do not want all users logging on as root if I can avoid it.
No luck, but if you have anything else I could try...
Thanks,
Steven

[xyon]

Thanks for the effort, I was already in the dialout group (verifed that when I went to add it), and the route command did not seem to have any effect (still getting exit code 2 from pppd when not su to root).

I am pretty sure I do not want all users logging on as root if I can avoid it.
No luck, but if you have anything else I could try...
Thanks,
Steven

I unfortunately have more experiance with ppp problems than I'd like to admit to, and alot of those are with debian based distros.

from the pppd man pages

exit code 2 An error was detected in processing the options given, such as
two mutually exclusive options being used.

You probably should check your /etc/ppp/options file with a text editor and see what might be conflicting with what you have set up in gnome-ppp. I believe there is a command listed in the options file which will let you see all the active options. Hope that helps.

[scpeckham]

THANKS! That helped in an strange way ... I found I could not get to the /etc/ppp/peers
directory ... as soon as I did a CHMOD on that, everything worked!!!