Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:24:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com> To: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User-ppp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010111615320.478-100000@parmenides.utp.net> In-Reply-To: <52d299530730.53073052d299@marquette.edu>
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Do you have an "allow user" directive in your ppp.conf? Something like: allow user jeremy On FreeBSD 3.2 the directives in "ppp.conf" had to start in column 2, the labels in column 1. That is why I put a space in front of the "allow". ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jeremy Vandenhouten wrote: > > The account is already a member of group wheel, and I have added him to > the network group by editing the groups file. > > Any further thoughts? > J > > > > Also, at this moment in time I have a particular login account that > > > I would like to add ppp access too. When I try to run ppp under this > > > account it tells me access denied. What can I do to correct this? > > > > The executable of user-mode PPP is owned by: > > > > % ls -l /usr/sbin/ppp > > -r-sr-xr-- 1 root network 296668 Sep 22 10:52 /usr/sbin/ppp* > > > > Since it's setuid-root, you should probably add the account that you > > want to be able to run user-PPP to the `network' group. > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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