From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 15 20:53:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27088 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 20:53:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sag.space.lockheed.com (sag.space.lockheed.com [192.68.162.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA27079 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 20:52:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from handy@sag.space.lockheed.com) Received: from localhost by sag.space.lockheed.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/21Nov95-0423PM) id AA16278; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 20:52:53 -0800 Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 20:52:53 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Handy To: Brian Haskin Cc: Obi Wan Oblivion , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IIJPPP & The Root User In-Reply-To: <002a01bd3a95$d9259960$0b00000a@brianjr.haskin.org> Message-Id: X-Files: The truth is out there Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>Any reason why I shouldn't modify IIJPPP Version 1.2 (built on 9/23/97) to >>allow uids other than zero to dialout? Doesn't PPP now have some sort of "allow users [bleah]" mode? Inless I'm missing the point, this was in -current for a while and just recently merged into -stable. That's what I'm using. I run ppp -background as a non-root type all the time, using the above sort of thing. If that's a huge gateway to my system, I suppose I'd like to know about it... Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message