Sonicwall NetExtender

Thanks for all your help with this issue. It has been working fine until today, when I received the following error:

09/15/2018 11:35:26.915 [general fatal    2588] FATAL: You don't have permission to read/execute '/etc/ppp/peers'
09/15/2018 11:35:26.915 [general error    2588] pppd permissions are invalid

permissions for /etc/ppp/peers:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root dialout 4096 Jul  7 01:35 peers

and all files within that directory:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root dialout 195 Feb 19  2018 ppp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root dialout 206 Feb 19  2018 pppoatm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root dialout 382 Feb 19  2018 pppoe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root dialout 371 Feb 19  2018 pppoe-rp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root dialout 272 Feb 19  2018 pptp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root dialout 226 Apr 27  2017 sslvpn

and /usr/sbin/pppd:

-rwsr-xr-x 1 root dialout 366984 Feb 19  2018 pppd

My user is a member of the dialout group so as far as I can tell, the permissions are fine…

Any ideas what might be causing this permissions error? I haven’t changed anything with this configuration.

I don’t use SonicWall, but a quick look at the installer page does show the expected permissions in one of the images…
https://sonicwall.rightanswers.com/portal/app/portlets/results/onsitehypermedia/090180105442394.png?linkToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJzb25pY3dhbGwiLCJleHAiOjE1Njg1Nzg4NDMsImlhdCI6MTUzNzA0Mjg0M30.4iosStnEouIbzr22YOdx_WLOo3gfLcwLc_fo3F5kNgQ

Maybe try replicating those or just reinstall.

If you need further support I would consider obtaining that from the developers themselves perhaps…
https://www.sonicwall.com/en-us/support