From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 17 22:06:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EEB216A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:06:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rrzmta1.rz.uni-regensburg.de (rrzmta1.rz.uni-regensburg.de [132.199.1.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FFA543D1D for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:06:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de) Received: from rrzmta1.rz.uni-regensburg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id E0B021262A1 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:06:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from tipi.mininet (rrzras2-74.rz.uni-regensburg.de [132.199.209.74]) by rrzmta1.rz.uni-regensburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240171261D3 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:06:55 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: emacs 21.2.1 (via feedmail 8 I); VM 7.03 under Emacs 21.2.1 From: "Markus Hoenicka" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16835.22564.964999.291095@tipi.mininet> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:05:24 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ppp works only as root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:06:51 -0000 Hi, somehow I've managed to lock myself out of the ppp tool. I had it set up on my 5.3 box so that I could dial out as a regular user (I've added myself to the dialer group and added a "allow users markus" line to ppp.conf). This worked nicely until yesterday. Needless to say, I can't remember doing anything that might affect this peaceful state. I did install a few ports, but these were related to text processing, not to networking. Regardless, if I try to start ppp today from my user account, I'll never see the ppp command prompt. Instead, ppp eats all my cpu cycles by forking (the process list is full of ppp instances) until I kill ppp. ppp still works if I run it as root. However, I get this warning: Warning: ff02:4::/32: Change route failed: errno: Network is unreachable which I didn't get before either. As you can see, I can connect to the internet regardless, but I'd like to know how I managed to screw this up. Has anyone seen this before? regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka markus.hoenicka@cats.de (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de