From owner-freebsd-questions  Sat Dec 30 16:06:48 1995
Return-Path: owner-questions
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA25608
          for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 16:06:48 -0800 (PST)
Received: from panix.com (panix.com [198.7.0.2])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA25603
          for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 16:06:46 -0800 (PST)
Received: (from jbarrm@localhost) by panix.com (8.7/8.7/PanixU1.3) id TAA26144; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 19:06:37 -0500 (EST)
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 19:06:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com>
To: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au>
cc: "freebsd.questions" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ijppp cannot talk to modem (/dev/cuaa1)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951231090450.25959B-100000@wedge.cc.utas.edu.au>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951230185154.24246A-100000@panix.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
Precedence: bulk


On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Carey Nairn wrote:

> sounds like you have a password set in ppp.secret ...  if this is the 
> case you will only have access to the "pass" and "quit" commands, 
> anything else will respond with "what?" until you use the pass command to 
> enter the password...
> 
> Incidentally the password system is the only part of iijppp I find 
> annoying, since it displays the password in plain text you have to type 
> pass <password> on the command line...

Concurred, I'm now using what is proberly the proper set up for iijppp.
In the recent past, I always got password warnings, but ppp always
worked without any of that 'pass' stuff. That new 'what?' response
worried me.

Atleast it works, but yes, the displayed password is not a good feature.

My main problem was that I could only access ppp as root. Only a problem
when in X. I've since fixed that by starting X as a normal user, going
'su', cd'ing to /usr/sbin, and running ppp:

	$ ./ppp

This may me a security risk, but atleast I can run X & friends as a
regular user.

Thanks for writing.

Barry Masterson
jbarrm@panix.com
>--->--->--->--->--->
  FreeBSD     2.1.0
<---<---<---<---<---<

> On Sat, 30 Dec 1995, Barry Masterson wrote:
> 
> > Stephen,
> > 
> > I can now sympathise with your situation. In an attempt to run ppp
> > as a normal user, I've caused ppp to respond to all of my requests
> > of 'dial panix' 'set ?' 'show modem' with a "What?".

[...]
 
> > 
> > I should have left it alone.
> >

[...]
 
> 
> anyway, I hope this helps..
> 
> cheers,
> Carey
>