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Date:      Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:06:18 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Lanny Baron <beef@beef.tht.net>
Cc:        support@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPP ONLY RUNS BY ROOT AND X 
Message-ID:  <199801182106.VAA13764@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jan 1998 10:32:17 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980118101018.4266B-100000@beef.tht.net> 

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>  Secondly, when attempting to run ppp as a user, I get a message something
> to the effect of "ppp client must be run as ID 0". I did not have that
> problem before and now must either login as root or su myself. Is there a
> work around for this?

Get the latest ppp from -current or http://www.FreeBSD.org/~brian.  
Nobody seemed to like the uid 0 idea :-I

The latest ppp allows you to "allow users *" in your default section 
if you want the previous behaviour.

>   Your help is much appreciated
> 

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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