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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:42:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
To:        ipthomas_77@yahoo.com, jmz@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, jtonsing@operamail.com, Jud@operamail.com
Subject:   Re: Newbie: XFree86-4 and Permissions
Message-ID:  <200102151942.OAA00690@scraemondaemon.mydomain.org>
In-Reply-To: <200102131244.f1DCikS97710@freefall.freebsd.org>

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> From jmz@FreeBSD.org Mon Jan  4 12:07:19 1999
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 04:44:46 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.org>
> To: Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Jud@operamail.com, jtonsing@operamail.com
> Subject: Re: Newbie: XFree86-4 and Permissions
>
> >>>>> Ian Patrick Thomas writes:
>
>  > try doing chmod 644 ppp.conf
>
> This is not the solution. ppp.conf must remain unreadable by
> users. Look at the ppp man page instead (search for 'allow user')
>
> Jean-Marc
>
> -- 
> Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.org [KeyID: 400B38E9]
>
Thanks for the heads up.  I did not know that this file needed these permissions.  You're right, allow users should do the trick and make sure that your username is added to group network.  I need to do this on my system.

Humbly Corrected
Ian


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