Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:14:26 -0400 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: "\"Joe \\\"Marcus\\\" Clarke\"" <marcus@miami.edu> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Latest user-ppp... bug? Message-ID: <35EB2E52.AE6D373D@aei.ca> References: <Pine.OSF.4.02A.9808302246590.15444-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
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Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke wrote: > > This message is probably best address to Brian Somers, but perhaps I'm > just doing something wrong, and the people at questions will be able to > point that out. I just setup dialin ppp using user-ppp from 8/29/1998. > In order to get it to work with user ``ppp'' I had to add the following > line to the default: header: > > allow user ppp > > If I added it to the sub-header ppp:, I would get an error saying I could > not run ppp as this user in direct mode. I was under the impression that > each allow user[s] command precluded the first. Why, then, did this not > work? Also, if I had the global allow user, and a sub-header allow user, > it still would not work. Is there something I am missing? I think I > followed the directions pretty well. Thanks. > > Joe Clarke > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message My /etc/ppp/ppp.conf: " allow user f00f dlc" My /etc/group "network:*:69:f00f,dlc" Maybe you forgot to edit /etc/group? -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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