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Date:      Tue, 09 Sep 1997 16:57:20 GMT
From:      mouth@ibm.net (John Kelly)
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.5 release, can it be postponed?
Message-ID:  <34167ed6.3091179@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>
In-Reply-To: <19970909123253.13741@vinyl.quickweb.com>
References:  <341565dd.68501361@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> <19970909123253.13741@vinyl.quickweb.com>

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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





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