Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:42:08 -0500 (EST) From: Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: ipthomas_77@yahoo.com, jmz@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, jtonsing@operamail.com, Jud@operamail.com Subject: Re: Newbie: XFree86-4 and Permissions Message-ID: <200102151942.OAA00690@scraemondaemon.mydomain.org> In-Reply-To: <200102131244.f1DCikS97710@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> From jmz@FreeBSD.org Mon Jan 4 12:07:19 1999 > Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 04:44:46 -0800 (PST) > From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.org> > To: Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Jud@operamail.com, jtonsing@operamail.com > Subject: Re: Newbie: XFree86-4 and Permissions > > >>>>> Ian Patrick Thomas writes: > > > try doing chmod 644 ppp.conf > > This is not the solution. ppp.conf must remain unreadable by > users. Look at the ppp man page instead (search for 'allow user') > > Jean-Marc > > -- > Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.org [KeyID: 400B38E9] > Thanks for the heads up. I did not know that this file needed these permissions. You're right, allow users should do the trick and make sure that your username is added to group network. I need to do this on my system. Humbly Corrected Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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