From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 16:32:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01043 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 16:32:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00975 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 16:32:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA13764; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:06:18 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199801182106.VAA13764@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Lanny Baron cc: support@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP ONLY RUNS BY ROOT AND X In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jan 1998 10:32:17 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:06:18 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk [.....] > 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 , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....