From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 25 21:01:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA28530 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 21:01:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA28485 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 21:01:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13722; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 00:14:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199806252314.AAA13722@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Malartre cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP has a User and some trouble In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:08:35 EDT." <3592A033.E16347C@aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 00:14:41 +0100 From: Brian Somers Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id VAA28512 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have 2 questions > 1:why when I ppp dial manually, I get that when I try to log my user > name and password: > > ýÞ{ѯx>*À¢s:¤?ëT#îdì¾Ú¾Ï3æÃbg4¨²_³Š~^ZiF7Q©*SÙë²±=Í•h*4ÒK§– > rO›ž°øD²Zvð°ªÛÿò÷ßÒr˜Œý¢PeôÛ· > No idea. Does ``cu'' work ? > 2:I have put my user "kaput" in the /etc/group network: > network:*:69:kaput > But when I try to ppp: > > kaput$ ppp > You may not use ppp in this mode with this label< > > What does this message mean? I really need some user have ppp acces. I > dont want to give them the root password... Notice than I dont want to > enable ppp for all user. > How can I do that? You need to ``allow user kaput'' in the relevant section of ppp.conf. Check the man page - including the bit on PERMISSIONS. > Malartre > -- > -------------------------------------- > malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 > www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD-2.2.6 > -------------------------------------- -- 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