From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 11:43: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E23237B503; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:43:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from scraemondaemon.mydomain.org (1Cust81.tnt2.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.20.90.81]) by merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA04128; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:42:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ipthomas@localhost) by scraemondaemon.mydomain.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA00690; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:42:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ipthomas) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:42:08 -0500 (EST) From: Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200102151942.OAA00690@scraemondaemon.mydomain.org> To: ipthomas_77@yahoo.com, jmz@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Newbie: XFree86-4 and Permissions Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, jtonsing@operamail.com, Jud@operamail.com In-Reply-To: <200102131244.f1DCikS97710@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From jmz@FreeBSD.org Mon Jan 4 12:07:19 1999 > Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 04:44:46 -0800 (PST) > From: Jean-Marc Zucconi > To: Ian Patrick Thomas > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Jud@operamail.com, jtonsing@operamail.com > Subject: Re: Newbie: XFree86-4 and Permissions > > >>>>> Ian Patrick Thomas writes: > > > try doing chmod 644 ppp.conf > > This is not the solution. ppp.conf must remain unreadable by > users. Look at the ppp man page instead (search for 'allow user') > > Jean-Marc > > -- > Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.org [KeyID: 400B38E9] > Thanks for the heads up. I did not know that this file needed these permissions. You're right, allow users should do the trick and make sure that your username is added to group network. I need to do this on my system. Humbly Corrected Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message