From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 8 05:02:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA10130 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:02:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA10111 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:02:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18457; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 13:02:31 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA23436; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 11:22:54 GMT (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199811081122.LAA23436@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: btg@superior.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp remote access In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Nov 1998 23:22:17 EST." <3643CAF9.2866@superior.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 11:22:54 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have ppp up and running. However when IO try to dial my modem by > telnetting into my unix box I get a message saying "you may not use ppp > in this mode with this label". It works fin when I log in as root > though. I have addes the user in the /etc/group file under networking > and also added "allow users" in the ppp.conf file. Any help is > appreciated. This is V2.2.7 by the way. Thanks > > Mike Try giving the account that you're logging into a normal shell and executing ppp -direct from there. This may tell you more or at least narrow down where the problem is. I would suspect a mis-spelling in the allow users line (or a second allow users line that overrides the first). -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message