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From: Narana Kannappan <narana@cisco.com>
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Subject: ppp permissions
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I have some permission problems with user ppp.

Does anybody have any suggestions ?


Thanks,
Narana.

%
% ppp
You may only run ppp in client mode as user id 0
% su
Password:
#
# ppp
User Process PPP. Written by Toshiharu OHNO.
...
....works fine....

---SOME DETAILS---

% uname -a
FreeBSD pvs-ms1.csl.sri.com 2.2.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE #0: Tue Oct 21 14:33:00 GMT 1997     jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
%
% id -Gnr
staff wheel network
% id -Gnr root
wheel kmem sys tty operator staff guest network
% ls -l `which ppp`
-r-sr-x---  1 root  network  118784 Nov 22 03:04 /usr/sbin/ppp*