From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 23 14:56:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18953 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:56:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from namodn.com (namodn.com [207.33.107.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18948 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:56:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@namodn.com) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost) by namodn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA29209; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:00:50 GMT (envelope-from robert@namodn.com) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:00:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert To: Guy Penfold cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: tun0 and user permissions In-Reply-To: <3680DFF9.C39798F4@projectx.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Have you tried putting allow user guy (or whatever your username is :) in the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf? PPP runs setuid in the interest of security.. you have to be authorized :) ! -rob ( www.namodn.com ) ( robert@namodn.com ) On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Guy Penfold wrote: > Hello, > > Have succesfully installed PPP and is working fine in root however, when > logged in as a user cannot > get PPP to start i get the following > > % ppp > Working in interactive mode > No tunnel device is available (Permission denied) > Warning: OpenTunnel : No such device or directory > > I have changed permissions on /dev/tun0 from crw------- to crw-rw---- > and have added the user to the group dialer in /etc/groups however it > still does not work. Any assistance with this would be appreciated. > > regards > > guy > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message