From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 8:19:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CCD14C30 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:19:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA54350; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:53:36 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00836; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:37:56 GMT (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199903100937.JAA00836@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user ppp permission problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:46:27 +1030." <36E5E40B.C374F21A@vee.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:37:56 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. Have you more /dev/tun* entries than just tun0 ? It's possible that the above error is coming from (say) tun1 - if tun0 is in use, ppp will try to open tun1 then tun2 etc 'till it fails with ENOENT a few times. > Mike. > > -- > ? Michael Gratton - mike@vee.net > ! "I'd rather be anywhere, doing anything" > > http://web.vee.net/ -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message