From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 18:39:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picusnet.com (mail.picusnet.com [207.7.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D76937BCA4 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:38:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Received: from picusnet.com [209.96.235.203] by picusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id AD481A5300CC; Fri, 07 Apr 2000 21:37:12 -0400 Received: from picusnet.com (localhost.picusnet.com [127.0.0.1]) by picusnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA00395; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 21:29:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Message-ID: <38EE8B75.21BA8FEF@picusnet.com> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 21:29:25 -0400 From: William Freeman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ipthomas@mindspring.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: References: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------7C00146DB016464A6765CE60" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------7C00146DB016464A6765CE60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ironicly, User PPP doesn't play well with users, while Kernel PPP doesn't really care. use kernel ppp and that will solve that problem. ipthomas@mindspring.com wrote: > Could you tell me how to run a ppp session as a user other than root? I've added my user name to the default section of the ppp.config file after allow user. I've also used VIPW to add my user name to the network group. Is their something I missed? If this is the wrong email address for this question let me know the right one. > > I.P. Thomas > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- William D. Freeman (wdf@picusnet.com) http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GU d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E--- W+ N o-- K- w--- O- M- V-- PS+ PE++ Y-- PGP-- t++ 5-- X+++ R tv- b+ DI++++ D--- G- e- h! r-- !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --------------7C00146DB016464A6765CE60 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ironicly, User PPP doesn't play well with users, while Kernel PPP doesn't really care.  use kernel ppp and that will solve that problem.
 

ipthomas@mindspring.com wrote:

    Could you tell me how to run a ppp session as a user other than root? I've added my user name to the default section of the ppp.config file after allow user. I've also used VIPW to add my user name to the network group. Is their something I missed? If this is the wrong email address for this question let me know the right one.

                                          I.P. Thomas

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