From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 22:03:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA26233 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 22:03:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA26222 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 22:03:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (aeiusrF-09.aei.ca [206.186.205.9]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA10117; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 01:03:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35A44DDD.1531CCCB@aei.ca> Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 00:58:05 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Bradley CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP Troubles References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Neil Bradley wrote: > > > > > default: > > > > allow users > > > ^^^^^ .. who? > > > allow users takes arguments: which users to allow. > > allow user f00f kaput oooooo > > * f00f, kaput and oooooo are my 3 users who are allowed. > > You also need to add those users in /etc/group under "network" or > > something like that. > > Notice than there is NO "s" in the word "user". > > Yup. Got past that part, though I might point out that in the ppp man page > it states: > > "PERMISSIONS > By default, ppp will not run if the invoking user id is not zero. > This may be overridden by using the ``allow users'' command in > /etc/ppp/ppp.conf." > > Hence the confusion. > > However, now that I'm past that, I get a message in my /var/log/messages > file saying: > > Jul 8 18:14:52 beacon ppp[756]: Warning: OpenTunnel: No such file or > directory > > But the thing is that I *DO* have a tun0 device, and nothing else is using > it. In fact, I also created a tun1 thru tun3 (and all devices report > tun(x):flags=8010 mtu 1500" as it should), but no > matter what I do, I get this error. > > This is user ppp, and I'm attempting to use it in -direct mode with 2.2.6. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > -->Neil > I know that do confusion. But dont know why it work without the "s" for me. Anyone have info on that? -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message