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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