From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 17:28:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mgfairfax.rr.com (fe2.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149D537B93A for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:28:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dplummer@cox.rr.com) Received: from wdmp ([24.28.218.189]) by mail2.mgfairfax.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:28:35 -0400 From: "David M. Plummer" To: Cc: Subject: RE: user permissions Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:28:32 -0400 Message-ID: <000001c0032b$150c5260$0201a8c0@wdmp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Check the ppp man page. ppp can be started by root in auto mode, dialing out when a normal user needs a connection. Hope this helps, Dave Plummer > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris McNett > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 08:14 PM > To: adam_hefetz@hotmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: user permissions > > > Only root can reboot. su root before you try. > > Not sure about ppp. I don't use it. > > >From: "Adam Hefetz" > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: user permissions > >Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:00:29 GMT > > > >Hi, > >I have problems with my user permissions. When trying to > reboot I get this: > > > >$ shutdown -r now > >bash: /sbin/shutdown: Permission denied > > > >I tried doing 'chown adam:wheel /sbin/shutdown' but then I get this > >message: > > > >shutdown: NOT super-user > > > >Also, when I try using ppp I get this message: > > > >default: User access denied > > > >Please tell me what files should I change and to what permissions. > >Thanks, Adam > >_____________________________________________________________ > ___________ > >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message