From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 14 5:33:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grover.logicsquad.net (CPE-61-9-135-142.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.135.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8140C37B403 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 05:33:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paulh@logicsquad.net) Received: (qmail 44937 invoked by uid 65534); 14 Jul 2001 12:33:50 -0000 Received: from 210.11.4.5 (proxying for 210.11.4.246) (SquirrelMail authenticated user paulh) by grover.logicsquad.net with HTTP; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 22:03:50 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <22557.210.11.4.5.995114030.squirrel@grover.logicsquad.net> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 22:03:50 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: PPP problem From: "Paul A. Hoadley" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <006b01c10c9e$a2173300$51fbfbc2@divineshadow> References: <006b01c10c9e$a2173300$51fbfbc2@divineshadow> Cc: dennis.aspo@pp.inet.fi Reply-To: paulh@logicsquad.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.0.6) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > When I run the command ppp to connect to the internet it works fine > when logged on as root, but when logged on as my ordinary user, with > operator priviliges, it say 'permission denied' Whats wrong? In /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, add this line: allow user foo,bar,baz where foo, bar and baz are names of users you want to allow to run ppp. -- Paul. mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net mailto:paul.hoadley@student.adelaide.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message