From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 2 17:12:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-31.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87FAD1568D for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 17:12:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA01224; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 01:12:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA68844; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 00:08:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199909022308.AAA68844@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Ken Seggerman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user PPP only works for root In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:53:31 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 00:08:47 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [.....] > I have changed the permissions for /usr/sbin/ppp, /dev/tun0, and > /dev/cuaa0 still I get the following > > $ ppp > Working in interactive mode > Warning: No available tunnel devices found (Permission denied). > Warning: bundle_Create: No such file or directory > > Any suggestions would be most welcome. The tun device driver insists that only a process with root privileges can open the tun device. You cannot remove the suid bit from /usr/sbin/ppp. -- 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