From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 8:10:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.iiriam.fr (iiriam.iiriam.fr [194.167.168.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0CD37B40B for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:10:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: œby mail.iiriam.fr (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA35211; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:10:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: permission problem From: Henri Michelon To: AZNPrideChinese@worldnet.att.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020620143254.FRCH4559.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@there> References: <20020620143254.FRCH4559.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@there> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 20 Jun 2002 17:09:54 +0200 Message-Id: <1024585794.8984.13.camel@rd1fop01.intra.ecml-iiriam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Le Jeu 20/06/2002 =E0 04:33, AZN Unix a =E9crit : > how come when i use a regular user name i can't access the ppp file? and = i=20 > have root set it so that other users can execute the file but my reg name= =20 > still can't use it >=20 Setting the setuid bit for ppp (dangerous) or changing the mode of ppp.conf is a bad idea (since ISP passwords are stored in it). The best (read: most secure) way is to run ppp in 'auto' mode and use the following statements in the ppp.conf to allow a regular user to run and control the ppp damon: allow users username set server +3000 cleartextpassword Use 'pppctl 3000' to take control of the daemon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message