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To: Tim Moony <timm@uniqsite.com>
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Subject: Re: User PPP setup woe... (fwd) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:31:44 PST."
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[.....]
> ppp-shell
> ----------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> IDENT=`echo $0 | sed -e 's/^.*-\(.*\)$/\1/'`
> CALLEDAS="$IDENT"
> TTY=`tty`
> 
> if [ x$IDENT = xdialup ]; then
>     IDENT=`basename $TTY`
> fi
> 
> echo "PPP for $CALLEDAS on $TTY"
> echo "Starting PPP for $IDENT"
> 
> exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct $IDENT
> ==========================================

So this script will execute ``ppp -direct shell''.  You'll need an 
entry in ppp.conf called `shell'.

> When I login as the user, I got a line in /var/log/messages:
> 
>   Nov 26 22:23:58 uniqsite ppp[13756]: Warning: open_tun: No such file or
>   directory.
> 
> I am not sure what I did wrong.  BTW, I am using ppp-971125 from ~brian
> directory.

Sounds like you have no /dev/tun? entries.  Go into /dev and type

  # sh ./MAKEDEV tun5

The number above depends on how many concurrent users you want - 
you'll have to make sure your kernel is built with at least that 
number of tun pseudo-devices too.

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>
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