From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 6:10:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DF637B53F for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 06:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vedette@iconnect.co.ke) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13P2wU-0006Aj-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:09:14 +0300 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:09:14 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: permissions problems Message-ID: <20000816160914.E610@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Kostya on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:43:28PM +0400 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.pico.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 4:04PM up 22 days, 21:05, 9 users, load averages: 0.54, 0.39, 0.29 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Kostya (xyboct@yahoo.com): > > -----FW: permissions problems----- > > Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:53:31 +0400 (MSD) > From: Kostya & > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: permissions problems > > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: Kostya & > Date: 11-Aug-00 > Time: 15:40:47 > > This message was sent by XFMail > ---------------------------------- > I created a new user, which belongs to group wheel, but when working as this > user the system doesn't allow me to > -mount cd-rom drive > -deal with ppp programm > Somewhere in the ppp.conf,mostly under default: section you need to have this line "allow user that_user" minus the quotes e.g. allow user kostya That will allow the user to run ppp For mounting the cdrom I suggest you use sudo (if you have it). I am yet to configure how to let everyone mount a cdrom but I guess it is one of those things that you do with 'sysctl' > in the file /etc/group this user is added to network group > > > --------------End of forwarded message------------------------- > The problem was in chat-script and in chap-secrets file. But i still didn't > understand how to storage password and login separately. > Does anybody know what to write in chat scripts after "ogin:" and "assword:" to > make chat-script not to interpret it as as real password and login, but to make > it refer to "chap-secrets" file and read password and login there? I wrote > "username" and "password", but this didn't work. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness -George Orwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message