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Date:      Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:42:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Daniel Kligerman <kligs@interlog.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: !root access to tun0/user-ppp
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970217144131.7210B-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970217151109.21895D-100000@gold.interlog.com>

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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Daniel Kligerman wrote:

> I am having difficulty allowing any non-root user to have access to
> /dev/tun0 or user-ppp.  No matter what permissions I set the ppp conf
> files or /dev/tun0 to, I get:
> 
> No tunnel device is available.
> open_tun: No such file or directory
> 
> when ppp is run by anyone but root.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Make sure ppp is suid root.  This was probably disabled when a security
hole was discovered in ppp.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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