From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 31 16:15:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26804 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:15:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26770 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:15:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (aeiusrA-35.aei.ca [206.186.204.35]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA12359; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:14:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35EB2E52.AE6D373D@aei.ca> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:14:26 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "\"Joe \\\"Marcus\\\" Clarke\"" CC: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: Latest user-ppp... bug? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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