From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 8 5:46:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F4D37B60D for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 05:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12dttD-0009RD-00; Sat, 08 Apr 2000 12:58:59 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12dttD-0004cd-00; Sat, 08 Apr 2000 12:58:59 +0100 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:58:59 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: William Freeman Cc: ipthomas@mindspring.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User PPP as non-root user (was: [no subject]) Message-ID: <20000408125859.F4744@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <38EE8B75.21BA8FEF@picusnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38EE8B75.21BA8FEF@picusnet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG William Freeman wrote: > Ironicly, User PPP doesn't play well with users, while Kernel PPP > doesn't really care. use kernel ppp and that will solve that problem. This smells like FUD to me. I guess user PPP's manpage says this for a reason: allow user[s] logname... By default, only user id 0 is allowed access to ppp. If this com- mand is used, all of the listed users are allowed access to the section in which the ``allow users'' command is found. The `default' section is always checked first (even though it is only ever automatically loaded at startup). Each successive ``allow users'' command overrides the previous one, so it's possible to allow users access to everything except a given label by specify- ing default users in the `default' section, and then specifying a new user list for that label. If user `*' is specified, access is allowed to all users. Also, please send mail in plain text next time, HTML mail is not appreciated by many people. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message