Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:58:59 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: William Freeman <wdf@picusnet.com> Cc: ipthomas@mindspring.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User PPP as non-root user (was: [no subject]) Message-ID: <20000408125859.F4744@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <38EE8B75.21BA8FEF@picusnet.com> References: <Springmail.105.955157340.0.03051300@www.springmail.com> <38EE8B75.21BA8FEF@picusnet.com>
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William Freeman wrote:
> 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.
This smells like FUD to me. I guess user PPP's manpage says this for a
reason:
allow user[s] logname...
By default, only user id 0 is allowed access to ppp. If this com-
mand is used, all of the listed users are allowed access to the
section in which the ``allow users'' command is found. The
`default' section is always checked first (even though it is only
ever automatically loaded at startup). Each successive ``allow
users'' command overrides the previous one, so it's possible to
allow users access to everything except a given label by specify-
ing default users in the `default' section, and then specifying a
new user list for that label.
If user `*' is specified, access is allowed to all users.
Also, please send mail in plain text next time, HTML mail is not
appreciated by many people.
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Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D
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