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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:14:26 -0400
From:      Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
To:        "\"Joe \\\"Marcus\\\" Clarke\"" <marcus@miami.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Latest user-ppp... bug?
Message-ID:  <35EB2E52.AE6D373D@aei.ca>
References:  <Pine.OSF.4.02A.9808302246590.15444-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>

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Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke wrote:
> 
> This message is probably best address to Brian Somers, but perhaps I'm
> just doing something wrong, and the people at questions will be able to
> point that out.  I just setup dialin ppp using user-ppp from 8/29/1998.
> In order to get it to work with user ``ppp'' I had to add the following
> line to the default: header:
> 
> allow user ppp
> 
> If I added it to the sub-header ppp:, I would get an error saying I could
> not run ppp as this user in direct mode.  I was under the impression that
> each allow user[s] command precluded the first.  Why, then, did this not
> work?  Also, if I had the global allow user, and a sub-header allow user,
> it still would not work.  Is there something I am missing?  I think I
> followed the directions pretty well.  Thanks.
> 
> Joe Clarke
> 
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My /etc/ppp/ppp.conf:
" allow user f00f dlc"
My /etc/group
"network:*:69:f00f,dlc"
Maybe you forgot to edit /etc/group?
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