From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 1: 2:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trout.in.the.milky.way.org (ts1-146.advancenet.net [209.44.30.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C01314D33 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 01:02:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trout2@advancenet.net) Received: from localhost (trout2@localhost) by trout.in.the.milky.way.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA02658; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 03:04:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from trout2@advancenet.net) X-Authentication-Warning: trout.in.the.milky.way.org: trout2 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 03:04:34 -0600 (CST) From: trout2 X-Sender: trout2@trout.in.the.milky.way.org To: Mike Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user ppp permission problems In-Reply-To: <36E5E40B.C374F21A@vee.net> 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 is the line in your ppp.conf file "allow user foo" or "allow users foo"? should be 'users' also, you might want to try "./MAKEDEV tun0" On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Mike wrote: > > Hi people, > > I'm trying to get user ppp working for users other than root. It works > fine for root. I've added > allow user foo > to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf in the appropriate section and added user foo to > group network, but I'm getting this error message: > > No tunnel device is available (Permission denied) > > Playing with tun0's permissions didn't work. I'm using 3.0-RELEASE. > > Any suggestions? Thanks. > Mike. > > -- > ? Michael Gratton - mike@vee.net > ! "I'd rather be anywhere, doing anything" > > http://web.vee.net/ > > > 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