From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 17 15:34: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop1.gte.net (smtppop1pub.gte.net [206.46.170.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4754F37B50F for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from res03db2@gte.net) Received: from evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net (evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net [4.34.146.5]) by smtppop1.gte.net with ESMTP ; id RAA3104535 Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:32:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:34:18 -0700 (PDT) From: The Clark Family X-Sender: res03db2@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net To: Alex Kwan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to enable a user group run pppd? In-Reply-To: <000b01bfd7ac$d6fe4cc0$a61d40ca@alexkwan> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FWIW In the case of userland ppp, I think I put everyone I wanted to be able to run ppp into the network group. And then added lines in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf to tell ppp what sections of the config file they were allowed to access. In the case of pppd, it looks like it gid is wheel, and it is setuid root. So members of the wheel group can run it. *** Note, I WOULD NOT put people into the wheel group just to run pppd. I would look at changing the gid associated with pppd and then put people inot that group. *** For example a group called "ppp" would be intuitive. Please be aware, I have not done this with kernel ppp. [RC] On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > > My system only the root can run pppd (kernel mode ppp > not use mode ppp), How to enable a specify user group > to run it ? > > Thanks! > > > > 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