Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 10:42:14 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au> To: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ppp as su & normal user Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960101102936.27510A@wedge.cc.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951231084402.15320B-100000@panix.com>
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On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Barry Masterson wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Carey Nairn wrote: > > > I don't see why you have to run ppp as root. I have always run it as > > a regular user. I have the appropriate config files in my home directory > > as .ppp.conf and .ppp.secret (which is different to the man page, but it > > works:-). This seems to work fine for me without having to su first. > > The permissions on ppp (which I have never changed) are > > > > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 86016 Nov 16 09:57 /usr/sbin/ppp > > Are you starting ppp the same as I do: ./ppp while in /usr/sbin? > With ppp, not being in my regular user path, I always got 'command not > found', this also applied to su. So I started it as root. > It's just recently that I started to run ppp from its own directory. I actually have /usr/sbin in my path so I can run it no matter what directory I happen to be in. I also run it from a menu under whichever window manager I happen to running at the time for X. The command I use for this is xterm -e ppp & which just starts ppp in a new window for me. I have also used the demand dial feature of ppp at times, in fact I set up a FreeBSD box for a local business to connect their Windows LAN to their ISP and run POP mail clients to retrieve their mail in this way (it was a very nice solution for them). > > I went su to start ppp in X for good measure, couldn't hurt. > > ppp found a home for itself in sbin, and I did not want to change it. > I haven't actually tried just running ppp as normal user, I'll give > it a try. Also I'll try your setup for placing the config files in > my ~/ home directory, instead of in my ~/ppp/ home directory, > as the man pages suggest. don't forget the files are .ppp.conf etc. not ppp.conf etc. cheers, Carey ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================
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