Non-root user cannot use net (WAS: mouse support in slackware 4.0)

Sat Sep 11 17:42:35 CDT 1999

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Message-ID: <37DA9282.942D306D at discoverynet.com>
From: "Maurice L. Entwistle" <maurice at discoverynet.com>
Organization: E-biz Media
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To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: kclug - Re: Non-root user cannot use net (WAS: mouse support in
slackware 4.0)
References: <199909111824.NAA00422 at praxis.silence.org>
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Dear Sam:
<p>I can connect with my ISP, discoverynet.com with kppp both as root and
as myself, maurice. However, I cannot open Netscape as maurice, only as
root. When I go to logout, a Netscape message says, maybe you have a $SOCKS_NS
lock. I can go in and delete the lock file, but it always re-appears.
<p>Maurice
<p>Sam Clippinger wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>When last we left our heroes, Maurice L. Entwistle
had just said:
<br>> Dear KC Lugs:
<br>> &lt;p>Now that Cruller has his mouse working, what about this?
<br>> &lt;br>I finally, after a month have actually (a miracle for me)
gotten on
<br>> the net with Netscape. However, I can only get on as "root" and I
know
<br>> that's a NO, No!
<br>> &lt;p>Is this just a "chmod" thing, where I need to change user permissions,
<br>> or do I have something more complicated wrong? Any suggestions will
be
<br>> appreciated.
<br>> &lt;p>Maurice
<p>I don't think I understand.&nbsp; Do you mean that your non-root user
cannot dial
<br>up, that your non-root user cannot start Netscape, or that your non-root
user
<br>cannot send/check email?&nbsp; Basically: more information, please.
:)
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-sam
<br>&nbsp;Sam 
Clippinger&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
For PGP public key (KEY ID: 431C5529), see
<br>samc at silence.org&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.micro.com/~samc">http://www.micro.com/~samc</a> or
<a href="http://pgp.ai.mit.edu">http://pgp.ai.mit.edu</a>
<br>=============randomly selected quote===no relevance to the above=============
<br>"Eternity takes back its own.&nbsp; Our bodies stirred these waters
briefly,
<br>danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self,
dealt
<br>with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time.&nbsp;
What
<br>can we say of this?&nbsp; I occurred.&nbsp; I am not...yet, I occurred."
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs
p;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- Frank Herbert, "Dune Messiah"
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