[Bug 289239] Re: [intrepid ubuntu] gnome-ppp lacks permissions

[ullix]

Well, the action on this bug report wasn't exactly overwhelming ...

In the meantime I discovered how I can get the modem to work by brute
force, but someone more competent than me needs to change this into
something presentable!It seems to be solely an issue of file
permissions.

what I did: changed those files/directories to mode 777:

 /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
 /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
 /etc/ppp/peers/
 /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial
 /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial-pipe

after the change, this is what it looks like :

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root    96 2008-12-19 22:21 chap-secrets
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1754 2008-10-16 03:50 ip-down
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1892 2008-10-16 03:50 ip-up
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   784 2008-10-16 03:50 ipv6-down
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   922 2008-10-16 03:50 ipv6-up
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13486 2008-10-16 03:50 options
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  1644 2008-12-19 22:21 pap-secrets
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   137 2008-10-16 03:50 pppoe_on_boot
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ulli    50 2008-12-19 22:21 resolv.conf

peers:
-rw-r----- 1 root dip  1093 2008-10-30 00:06 provider
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   30 2008-05-19 11:55 wvdial
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   75 2008-05-19 11:55 wvdial-pipe

please, do make this properly!


uname -a  :
Linux extensa5220 2.6.27-10-generic #1 SMP Fri Nov 21 12:00:22 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

modem:
USB modem:  Zoom 56k USB Modem, series 1063, model 3095, from Zoom Technologies Inc, ~$35
The modem is quite small - about the size of a very small mouse - so for those travelling into and/or living in the DSL diaspora, this is a nice piece of hardware.

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