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From: morten.gulbrandsen@t-online.de (Morten Gulbrandsen)
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Subject: Re: /usr/sbin/ppp: Permission denied
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:29:50 +0000
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, you wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:07:32PM +0000, Morten Gulbrandsen wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:28:58AM +0000, Morten Gulbrandsen wrote:
> > > > bash-2.04$ ppp -ddial
> > > > bash: /usr/sbin/ppp: Permission denied
> > > > bash-2.04$ ls -l /usr/sbin/ppp
> > > > -r-sr-xr--  1 root  network  283624 Dec  2  2000 /usr/sbin/ppp
> > > > bash-2.04$
> > > >                
> > > > 
> > > > bash-2.04$ ls -l ppp.conf
> > > > -rw-------  1 root  wheel  3040 Dec 21 10:42 ppp.conf
> > > > bash-2.04$        
> > > > 
> > > > su-2.04# less ppp.conf 
> > > > default:
> > > >      allow user morten   
> > > > 
> > > > How can I  allow user morten, without  
> > > > permission denied ?
> > > 
> > > Add him to the group "network"
> > 
> > by means of  adduser  morten  network  , I presume  ?
> 
> No, with 'vi /etc/groups'

here is my  /etc/group
bash-2.04$ cat /etc/group
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.19 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $
#
wheel:*:0:root
daemon:*:1:daemon
kmem:*:2:root
sys:*:3:root
tty:*:4:root
operator:*:5:root
mail:*:6:
bin:*:7:
news:*:8:
man:*:9:
games:*:13:
staff:*:20:root
guest:*:31:root
bind:*:53:
uucp:*:66:
xten:*:67:xten
dialer:*:68:
network:*:69:
nogroup:*:65533:
nobody:*:65534:        

Please tell me how to modify it.

Yours Sincerely

Morten Gulbrandsen


> 
> Edwin
> 
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