From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid
On Fri, 03 May 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article
, Daniel47@teranews.com wrote:
>>>>>> I figured I'd re-install my MD2009 system
>>>>>> I'm guessing I've done something wrong (see below) because,
>>>>>> previously, to connect to the internet I'd run Network Centre
>>>>>> and select my 3G Wireless connection then I'd open a terminal
>>>>>> and run, as user, a script written by my ISP to actually make
>>>>>> the connection. Since I fixed the previously mentioned problem,
>>>>>> to run my ISP's script I've had to SU in the terminal to be
>>>>>> able to run the script.
Better description of the problem helps. Your 're-install' didn't
cross all the 'i's and dot all the 't's.
>ls -l /daniel/ gives a full list, including
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 daniel root 597 2010-04-04 21:20 ppp.sh*
>After selecting my 3G USB dongle in Network Center, I run my ISP's
>script, ppp.sh, which looks like this....
>____________________________________
>#! /bin/sh
>
>echo "copies my config and tries to start ppp"
As "ordinary user" (without 'su') do you see this line echoed?
>sudo cp -pf /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0.rhw
>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0
>echo "Trying to connect"
Do you see _this_ line?
My guess is that your 'sudo' is barfing - hasn't been told you want
it to run this
>sudo pppd
and this as root. When you 'su' first, sudo is following meekly and
doing things as desired.
>Again my mistake, I don't have a "guest" log-in, but I was unsure if
>I didn't enter my account's password, I thought I just got some sort
>of "Guest" (i.e. limit permissions) user account.
No, the idea is 'sudo' can be configured to allow _you_ to run specific
commands - and it can be set to require a password or not. In this
case, probably set to not ask for the password.
Old guy
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