From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 14 8:27:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grover.logicsquad.net (CPE-61-9-135-142.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.135.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC07137B401 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 08:27:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paulh@logicsquad.net) Received: (qmail 47328 invoked by uid 65534); 14 Jul 2001 15:28:09 -0000 Received: from 10.0.0.3 (SquirrelMail authenticated user paulh) by grover.logicsquad.net with HTTP; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 00:58:09 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <3063.10.0.0.3.995124489.squirrel@grover.logicsquad.net> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 00:58:09 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: PPP problem From: "Paul A. Hoadley" To: root@pukruppa.de In-Reply-To: <20010714144534.M31627-100000@localhost.de> References: <20010714144534.M31627-100000@localhost.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dennis.aspo@pp.inet.fi Reply-To: paulh@logicsquad.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.0.6) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> > When I run the command ppp to connect to the internet it works fine >> > when logged on as root, but when logged on as my ordinary user, with >> > operator priviliges, it say 'permission denied' Whats wrong? >> >> In /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, add this line: > Actually nothing is wrong. On a multi-user-system root > should be the only one who starts ppp-connections, mounts > files-systems etc. Maybe, but the original poster is clearly asking about functionality that exists in the standard /usr/sbin/ppp. -- Paul. mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net mailto:paul.hoadley@student.adelaide.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message