From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 16 18:54:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from operamail.com (OperaMail.com [199.29.68.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 099EE37B503; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:54:46 -0800 (PST) X-WM-Posted-At: operamail.com; Fri, 16 Feb 01 21:54:44 -0500 X-WebMail-UserID: Jud Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:54:44 -0500 From: Jud To: Jean-Marc Zucconi Cc: "ipthomas_77" , freebsd-questions X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00000000 Subject: RE: Newbie: XFree86-4 and Permissions Message-ID: <3ABF3E1A@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: InterChange (Hydra) SMTP v3.61.08 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >===== Original Message From Jean-Marc Zucconi ===== >>>>> Jud writes: > > > With all respect, I think we may be barking up the wrong tree here. The > > "allow user" line has always been in my ppp.conf file, and I have included > > myself as a member of the network group in /etc/group as well. I was able to > > use ppp as a regular user without any problem until installing XFree86-4. > >Can you report the *exact* error message you get when you try to start >ppp? Yes. Here's an attempt to use -auto mode followed by an attempt to use ppp interactively, following my sig. Jud $ ppp -auto isp isp: /etc/ppp/ppp.conf: File not found $ ppp Working in interactive mode Warning: No available tunnel devices found (Permission denied) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message