From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 21 15:05:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06651 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:05:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06634 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:05:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA05304; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:03:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:03:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Lanny Baron cc: support@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP ONLY RUNS BY ROOT AND X In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Lanny Baron wrote: > I have reformatted my h/d and downloaded 2.2.5. Upon setting up Xwindows, > running startx, I have found that there is no X in /usr/X11R6/bin. Is > there something I have not received that would cause this? Did you run xf86config and/or install the appropriate X server for your system? > 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? If you update your ppp to the latest development version, you can put an `allow users *' in your ppp.conf, then you can regulate access using the `network' group. This feature is NOT in 2.2.5. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major