Re: [ossig] SUID problems

["Venantius Kumar" <venks@hitts.com>]

I did that last night.  But still problem persists.  I can dial out ok i.e.
"connect start" works.  But when I do a "connect stop" it just hangs.
Meaning it is in a state of "hanging up" the connection.  Same thing with
windows clients.

Windows clients are a shareware, where not more than 3 copies are allowed to
be installed.  So a cunning way (suggested by someone -- I can't remember
who) is to map the network drive where a single copy of wconnect is
installed and run off it for all the clients!!!

Well another funny thing...when I "ifup ppp0", I find that the scripts don't
read /etc/ppp/options file.  I am using wvdial as a chat replacement, which
I find very easy to configure and maintain (never got the hang of using
chat!!!).  In an effort to start pppd directly without going through any
ifup srcipts I found that when wvdial starts (this way its reading off
options file) it cannot find the device (/dev/modem -->/dev/ttyS0) or the
init string doesn't go to the device!!!

Screwed up pretty well I guess!  More likely that its lack of my knowledge!


regards,
Venantius.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ditesh Kumar" <ditesh@ameba6.com>
To: <ossig@mncc.com.my>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [ossig] SUID problems


> I have used alt-connect before. Since you can't remember what really
> happened, perhaps you could wipe out /etc/connect and do the make
> install and run the add-provider script again? I have screwed up before
> and reinstallation usually solves the problems.
>
> PS: (You mean this alt+connect right:
> http://freespace.virgin.net/fuchsia.groan/software/ ? I believe the
> windows client is shareware.)
>
> On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:10, Venantius Kumar wrote:
> > Actually its more like dial-on-demand kind of feature.  All my users are
on
> > Win98 machines.  They can telnet into the Linux server to initiate the
> > dialing.  So when One person have initiated it, the other can just
surf --
> > internet connection sharing.
> >
> > I have experimenting with a solution called "alt-connect".  It worked
pretty
> > well, until recently I did something (which I can't remember what) that
> > broke the whole thing pretty bad.  So now one of the us administrators
have
> > to "ifup ppp0" and "ifdown ppp0" manually on request!!!
> >
> > Since alt-connect is an open source project (including Windows client),
I
> > have asked its maintainer Peter Miller for help.  He is now studying the
log
> > files for the problem.  so meanwhile I want to have a temp solution.  I
have
> > done this before on MDK 8.2 before.
> >
> > So thats the story behind all this.  Any help...suggestions?
>
>
> --
> Ditesh Kumar
> Ameba6 Solutions Sdn. Bhd.
>
> "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits
> is, of course, in a state of sin." - John Von Neumann
>
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