From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 5 11:40:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA03869 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 11:40:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Bayou.UH.EDU (jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU [129.7.1.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA03863 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 11:40:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jef53313@localhost) by Bayou.UH.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA05792; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 13:40:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 13:40:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh To: Brian Somers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Only root can use ppp or tun0? In-Reply-To: <199710050807.JAA10755@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was thinking the same thing, but everyone had read access to all of those files. So then I thought to look at the /etc directory, and found only owner and group had access to it, so I added in read and execute to it and now seems to work fine. On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > This sounds very much like some sort of configuration problem - maybe > /etc/services or /etc/resolv.conf isn't readable ? > > > The error message the appears for telnet when a.) a domain name is used is > > "resolver internal error" and b.) for an ip address "telnet: tcp/telnet: > > unknown service." This is the same in tinyfugue, talk, finger, etc. IRC > > receives a permission denied error when attempting to connect to a server. > > These all work as they are supposed to when someone is in wheel. Also, the > > motd file is only displayed to members of wheel, yet it is readable by > > anyone. > > > -- > Brian , , > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > >