From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 7:25: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2842A37B66F for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 07:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds20-123.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.123.20] with ESMTP id QAA17231 (8.8.5/1.13); Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:24:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00507; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:24:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:24:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: Jeremy Vandenhouten Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User-ppp In-Reply-To: <52d299530730.53073052d299@marquette.edu> 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 Do you have an "allow user" directive in your ppp.conf? Something like: allow user jeremy On FreeBSD 3.2 the directives in "ppp.conf" had to start in column 2, the labels in column 1. That is why I put a space in front of the "allow". ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jeremy Vandenhouten wrote: > > The account is already a member of group wheel, and I have added him to > the network group by editing the groups file. > > Any further thoughts? > J > > > > Also, at this moment in time I have a particular login account that > > > I would like to add ppp access too. When I try to run ppp under this > > > account it tells me access denied. What can I do to correct this? > > > > The executable of user-mode PPP is owned by: > > > > % ls -l /usr/sbin/ppp > > -r-sr-xr-- 1 root network 296668 Sep 22 10:52 /usr/sbin/ppp* > > > > Since it's setuid-root, you should probably add the account that you > > want to be able to run user-PPP to the `network' group. > > > > > > > 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