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suddenly kppp unable to open modem
have i been hacked?
been using a hdd install of knoppix for a few months now- everything has been great, then suddenly yesterday kppp is 'unable to open modem'. (external us robotics- ttyS0)
i logged in as root and it works, but still won't work as user. query modem = unable to open modem as well
thinking it may be a user config file, i made a new user- same prob.
any ideas on how this could happen out of the blue? i was not installing or upgrading anything, it just stopped working.
is there a way a hacker could turn off serial port access to users or something like that?
peace now
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not likely you were hacked. Some update or another did that to me the other day. It was a return to the problem I had originally with this install of kanotix. Likely /dev/ ttyS01 through 3 (note case) have had their permissions changed to forbidden. My "fix" was probably overkill, but I set it back to the way it used to be, read & write for Root and Group (dialout). I don't know how root got the modem when it was forbidden, though. So there must be another way - but this worked for me.
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kppp cannot open modem
same thing happended to me--working fine now only root can open modem
how did you fix it?
ran pppconfig
tp find modem
kpp config is ok
pon connects as user ( do not know what to do once pon conntects--mozilla does not seem to know there is a connection)
this is a major problem for me
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after connectrion try
sudo /etc/init.d/bind9 restart
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kppp modem problem--cannot open modem
found out problem
somehow de/ttys0 had permission changed to forbiden
changed user/group to read and write
everything now ok
thanks
peter
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kppp modem unable to open
happened again tody
something is changing permissions /dev/ttys0 to forbidden
any ideas?
no problem for me but when i am not at home users will have a problem
thinking of writting a script on login to automatically change permissions of /dev/ttys0 to all r/w
as fix
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Hi
I hadve a similar problem, thunder lightening and a power cut meant no internet next time I tried. Have I fried the modem? Dynalink internal hardware.
No it worked from root but nowhere else.
Nothing has changed as far as I can see but the reply above caused me to check the file /dev/tty2 and I find it is in the group tty not dialout? So I presume I have to add my users to group tty. Very strange.
Any ideas why this would have happened.
BTW It's a Knoppix 3.3 Hd install on a P3. dialup modem.
Cheers
Jim
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resolved kppp lock problem
deleted appropriate lock files in /var/lock
hth
peter
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