

If you have a permissions problem with
/etc/ppp and or other files, you have to change it in
/etc/permissions.*:

nico@flapp:/etc > ls permissions*
permissions       permissions.local          permissions.paranoid
permissions.easy  permissions.local.rpmorig  permissions.secure

You see what I mean ? In fact, which files are taken is set up
in /etc/rc.config (the suse main configuration file ).

rc.config:

#
# SuSEconfig can call chkstat to check permissions and ownerships for
# files and directories (using /etc/permissions).
# Setting to "set" will correct it, "warn" produces warnings, if
# something strange is found. Disable this feature with "no".
#
CHECK_PERMISSIONS=set

#
# SuSE Linux contains two different configurations for
# chkstat. The differences can be found in /etc/permissions.secure
# and /etc/permissions.easy. If you create your own configuration
# (e.g. permissions.foo), you can enter the extension here as well.
#
# (easy/secure local foo whateveryouwant).
#
PERMISSION_SECURITY="secure local"


So if there are permissions problems with those scripts,
they have to get fixed in the permissions.* files.

With permissions.easy, users in the group dialout
may use pppd and other tools.

permissions.paranoid let just the root do dialup connections.

permissions.secure is the same as permissions.easy.

