From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 9 09:55:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA20088 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:55:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA20073 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:55:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slip129-37-195-156.nc.us.ibm.net (slip129-37-195-156.nc.us.ibm.net [129.37.195.156]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA155604 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 16:55:35 GMT From: mouth@ibm.net (John Kelly) To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 release, can it be postponed? Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 16:57:20 GMT Message-ID: <34167ed6.3091179@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> References: <341565dd.68501361@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> <19970909123253.13741@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <19970909123253.13741@vinyl.quickweb.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA20074 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Sep 1997 12:32:53 -0400, you wrote: >User PPP works right... just "differently" than before. A specific >reference to the different behaviour should be noted on the CD of course, >but I think userland PPP is quite stable and working better than ever. > >When I unwittingly ran the new PPP for the first time, it exited with >the "must be user ID 0" thing, after which I quickly man'ed PPP and >read about the new behaviour. It would be nice to add >"... user ID 0 (root)" to the error message though, since there might >be newbies that don't equate userid 0 to the root login... On the machine in question, root is the only user, so I always run it as root. But in any event, that is not the problem. John