Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 14:47:51 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <dennis.aspo@pp.inet.fi> Subject: Re: PPP problem Message-ID: <20010714144534.M31627-100000@localhost.de> In-Reply-To: <22557.210.11.4.5.995114030.squirrel@grover.logicsquad.net>
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 22:03:50 +0930 (CST) > From: Paul A. Hoadley <paulh@logicsquad.net> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Cc: dennis.aspo@pp.inet.fi > Subject: Re: PPP problem > > > > 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. Uli. > > allow user foo,bar,baz > > where foo, bar and baz are names of users you want to allow to run 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 > *--------------------------------------* | www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de | | Wuppertal - Germany | *--------------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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