Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:37:56 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Mike <mike@vee.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user ppp permission problems Message-ID: <199903100937.JAA00836@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:46:27 %2B1030." <36E5E40B.C374F21A@vee.net>
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> > Hi people, > > I'm trying to get user ppp working for users other than root. It works > fine for root. I've added > allow user foo > to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf in the appropriate section and added user foo to > group network, but I'm getting this error message: > > No tunnel device is available (Permission denied) > > Playing with tun0's permissions didn't work. I'm using 3.0-RELEASE. > > Any suggestions? Thanks. Have you more /dev/tun* entries than just tun0 ? It's possible that the above error is coming from (say) tun1 - if tun0 is in use, ppp will try to open tun1 then tun2 etc 'till it fails with ENOENT a few times. > Mike. > > -- > ? Michael Gratton - mike@vee.net > ! "I'd rather be anywhere, doing anything" > > http://web.vee.net/ -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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