Re: [iPAQ] PPP and IP questions UPDATE

Just wanted to post my resolution to this issue, in case someone else
encounters the same problem...

My suspicion was correct - I needed to get around the pppd issue on the
iPAQ. Since /sbin/pppd was in a non-writable partition, I did a kludgy
thing -- I copied it to a writable partition and was able to chmod u+s it.
Then I modified the /etc/passwd file to now have the ppp account point to
this location. That's all I had to do! I'm sure some linux folks are
rolling their eyes, but I just needed to get past this for now!

Thanks again for the helpful suggestions,
Ellen

>From: "Ellen Dash" <edash_dgi@hotmail.com>
>To: ipaq@handhelds.org
>Subject: Re: [iPAQ] PPP and IP questions
>Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 07:11:23 -0400
>
>Thank you for the replies! ... I think I understand more, but I still don't
>have it working. :-(
>
>[stuff deleted]
>
>I'm suspicious of what's happening on the iPAQ with the starting of the
>pppd
>over there. It's supposed to happen when ppp logs in via the connect from
>the laptop. I don't know how to debug this step any further, but I have a
>feeling that it's not working properly. If I attempt to login to the iPAQ
>as ppp, it gives me the following error:
>
>-pppd: must be root to run -pppd, since it is not setuid-root
>
>Well, I tried to chmod /sbin/pppd (I think it was chmod u+s ... or
>something
>like that), but it didn't work because it is not in a writable partition.
>sigh... I bet there's some other linux way around this.. possibly in
>/etc/passwd.
>
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Received on Thu Apr 19 11:59:57 2001