From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 23 20:54:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC74F156D2 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:54:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id 12CbVr-0002jq-00; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 04:54:03 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA81687 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 04:53:33 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 04:53:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: permissions for ppp options 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 Well, i use this ppp.conf entry to enabl pppctrl: set server /var/run/internet "" 0177 but this must be run from root or else it returns this error: (I forget the exact wording) Bind: server command permission denied or something similar. Obviously, i just need to allow the set server command to be run from a non-root account. How may i do this? Right now, my user account is a member of group wheel and network. What else do i need to do? -=> jm <=- "I've done questionable things, also extraordinary things.... Revel in your time!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message