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Date:      Fri, 07 Apr 2000 21:29:25 -0400
From:      William Freeman <wdf@picusnet.com>
To:        ipthomas@mindspring.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 
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Ironicly, User PPP doesn't play well with users, while Kernel PPP doesn't really care.  use kernel ppp and that will solve that problem.


ipthomas@mindspring.com wrote:

>     Could you tell me how to run a ppp session as a user other than root? I've added my user name to the default section of the ppp.config file after allow user. I've also used VIPW to add my user name to the network group. Is their something I missed? If this is the wrong email address for this question let me know the right one.
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Ironicly, User PPP&nbsp;doesn't play well with users, while Kernel PPP
doesn't really care.&nbsp; use kernel ppp and that will solve that problem.
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<p>ipthomas@mindspring.com wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Could you tell me how to run a
ppp session as a user other than root? I've added my user name to the default
section of the ppp.config file after allow user. I've also used VIPW to
add my user name to the network group. Is their something I missed? If
this is the wrong email address for this question let me know the right
one.
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I.P. Thomas
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