[OLUG] non-privileged ppp ...?

[mrmyster]

hoping some wizard can help me with a frustrating
problem having to do with pppd.

at home i have a server using mklinux pre-R1 on a
powermac 7100/66.  after a lot of 'how-to-ing' and
good advice i've got it up and running.  its networked
to my two powermac7500's via ethernet and has a modem
on it.  

my goal is to build a web page (cgi) that i can get to
from one of my other macs that will tell the server to
dial in.

i can run the scripts as root (console or telnet) and
get dial up started just fine.  also got firewalling
and forwarding going (courtesy of IPFWADM) and its
working great.

try as i might i can NOT get the ppp scripts (start or
stop) to run from a non-privileged account.  that's 
going to be necessary for any kind of point and shoot
act on one of the macOS machines to start dial up.

to start the dial in i'm executing the following 
command-

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp ifcfg-ppp0 &

then i issue a firewall command.  to drop the 
connection i do this-

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-ppp ifcfg-ppp0

i've tried setuid and setgid against the pppd and the
scripts as well as several other pieces to no avail.

when i run the scripts from any user other than root
i get a pppd error 2.  i read the man page on it
and it wasn't very informative.

any guru’s that care to tackle this and relieve my 
stress?

thanx,
michael

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