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Roberto Pavan (rpavan@physics.ubc.ca)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:54:09 -0700
Petar Knezevich wrote:
> I have setup the ppp connection using the netcfg utility on Red Hat 5.2 at
> home. I set the option to allow other users to (de)activate the ppp
> connection. Everything works fine.
>
> Yesterday I set up a ppp connection for a friend on his Red Hat 5.2
> machine (that I installed for him also). I also set the allow any user to
> (de)activate the ppp connection. It does not work fine.
>
> If he starts /sbin/ifup ppp0 he gets his ppp connection fine but he cannot
> access the DNS. If he is using the root account, he has access to the
> DNS.
>
> Has anyone come accross this problem before? Is there a simple solution
> for it?
Yes, I have had the same problem under the same circumstances. Unfortunately,
I couldn't repeat the problem, so I'm not sure what exactly caused it. I
thought it might have had something to do with the linuxconf utility, but I
wasn't quite sure which I used when. I found it to be a permissions problem.
Check the permissions on the /etc/resolv.conf file using "ls -l". They should
be readable by everyone, i.e. -rw-r--r--. If not, "chmod a+r
/etc/resolv.conf" should fix the problem.
-- Your faithful narrator, Roberto Pavan, rpavan@physics.ubc.caWar doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. --Steven Wright
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