asterisk users - Jan 2010 - ZapRAS priviledge error

Hi,

I'm trying to get ZapRAS working but not getting very far..

Asterisk CLI shows:
WARNING[3355]: app_zapras.c:173 run_ras: wait4 returned -1: No child processes

and /var/log/messages shows:
using the plugin option requires root privilege


Can anyone shed any light on this and any fix? Googling the error doesn't
find much..
I'm not sure what 'plugin' it is talking about, I'm not passing
any plugin option to zapras..

Ta,
Will

Will Payne wrote:
> I'm trying to get ZapRAS working but not getting very far..
> 
> Asterisk CLI shows:
> WARNING[3355]: app_zapras.c:173 run_ras: wait4 returned -1: No child
processes
> 
> and /var/log/messages shows:
> using the plugin option requires root privilege
> 
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on this and any fix? Googling the error
doesn't find much..
> I'm not sure what 'plugin' it is talking about, I'm not
passing any plugin option to zapras..
ZapRAS forks off to pppd to handle the PPP session, it does not
implement PPP itself. You will have to be running Asterisk as root for
this to work, or provide a wrapper for pppd that ZapRAS can execute with
the suid bit set so that pppd runs with root privileges.

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