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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Daniel Kligerman wrote:

> I am having difficulty allowing any non-root user to have access to
> /dev/tun0 or user-ppp.  No matter what permissions I set the ppp conf
> files or /dev/tun0 to, I get:
> 
> No tunnel device is available.
> open_tun: No such file or directory
> 
> when ppp is run by anyone but root.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Make sure ppp is suid root.  This was probably disabled when a security
hole was discovered in ppp.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major