[Bug 814270] Re: first user created on the system needs to be in dip group

[Evgeniy]

Why does pppd not use dialout group and does use dip?

I just googled for what the dip is.

"dip means Dialup IP . It was written by Fred van Kempen and has been
patched very heavily by a number of people. Today there is one strain
that is used by almost everyone: Version dip337p-uri , which is included
with most modern Linux distributions, or is available from the
metalab.unc.edu FTP archive."

Why do such a general software piece like pppd use the group which is
named after some old crappy software? There's a special group named
"dialout" which has to be used.

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Title:
  first user created on the system needs to be in dip group

Status in “base-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I hope base-installer is the correct package for this report.  If not,
  please reassign.

  The first user created during installation of the base system is in
  the dialout group among others.  /usr/bin/pppd has group ownership of
  dip not dialout and this is by design.  The first user needs to be
  added to dip group as well for proper functioning of pppd connections.
  This is a fairly long-standing problem.

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