From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 6:51:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FE314F87 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:51:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id 12DqGM-000N4P-00; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:51:10 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA49516 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:51:10 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:51:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 'set server' permissions in ppp Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I hate to ask this again, but it's really bugging me. SInce no one has offered an explanation yet, i'll try rephrasing the question. I wanted to set up ppp so i can start it and stop it with alias or shell commands rather than keeping an xterm or console open with ppp running. So, it was suggested to use the 'set server' command in my ppp.linkup script to create an 'internet' entry in /var somewhere (i forget where exactly, sorry). Then, my alias 'poff' calls pppctl to close that connection. However, i now have to run ppp itself as root, whereas i didn't have to before. One thing i have learned here is to do as much as possible in my user account, which is a member of wheel and network groups. But 'set server' fails because bind only accepts the command under root (as of right now). How can i fix this? I want to log in by my user accout, type 'pon' to start ppp, and then 'poff' from any location to kill it. -=> jm <=- If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around, does anybody care? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message