Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 11:44:48 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au> To: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com> Cc: "freebsd.questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ijppp cannot talk to modem (/dev/cuaa1) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951231113825.25959E-100000@wedge.cc.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951230185154.24246A-100000@panix.com>
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> Concurred, I'm now using what is proberly the proper set up for iijppp. > In the recent past, I always got password warnings, but ppp always > worked without any of that 'pass' stuff. That new 'what?' response > worried me. > > Atleast it works, but yes, the displayed password is not a good feature. > > My main problem was that I could only access ppp as root. Only a problem > when in X. I've since fixed that by starting X as a normal user, going > 'su', cd'ing to /usr/sbin, and running ppp: > > $ ./ppp > > This may me a security risk, but atleast I can run X & friends as a > regular user. > I don't see why you have to run ppp as root. I have always run it as a regular user. I have the appropriate config files in my home directory as .ppp.conf and .ppp.secret (which is different to the man page, but it works:-). This seems to work fine for me without having to su first. The permissions on ppp (which I have never changed) are -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 86016 Nov 16 09:57 /usr/sbin/ppp cheers, Carey ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================
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