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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, sindi keesan wrote:

> I did cp -a /root/* and /root/.* to /home/user and then chown user * and
> chown user .* (same for subdirectories) in /home/user.


chown -R  does subdirectories too

> chmod 666 /dev/null (Opera needs that).

> I still cannot dial as user (it wants /etc/ppp/options, which root does
> not need) or ssh:

Why does root not need this options file?

Fixed with the help of the TAG people (The Answer Gang), one of whom typed 
out his options files which I copied.  I got an error message about 
authorization, changed auth to noauth, and it then complained about 
permissions on my modem /dev/ttyLT0, which needed to be readable and 
writable by user

crw-r--rw-- root tty ttyLT0
and also for ttyS* (normal modems)
and ttyp* (for rxvt which otherwise complains about pseudoterminals).

> login user:
> ssh_askpass:  exec(/opt/diet/libexec/ssh_askpass):  No such file or
> directory.

I asked for a copy of that.  Root does not need it.  Karolis is going to 
compile the latest openssh which may work better for user.

I can dial as user and then ssh as root.

psftp works for user
putty probably would if I had a lot of fancy libraries

> Does user need an /etc/ssh/ssh_config specifying where to look for things?

> Sindi