From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 30 16:45:04 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA27365 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 16:45:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from wedge.cc.utas.edu.au (wedge.cc.utas.edu.au [131.217.10.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA27360 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 16:45:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cp_nairn@localhost) by wedge.cc.utas.edu.au (8.7.1/8.6.6) id LAA26122; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 11:44:48 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 11:44:48 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn To: Barry Masterson cc: "freebsd.questions" Subject: Re: ijppp cannot talk to modem (/dev/cuaa1) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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. > I don't see why you have to run ppp as root. I have always run it as a regular user. I have the appropriate config files in my home directory as .ppp.conf and .ppp.secret (which is different to the man page, but it works:-). This seems to work fine for me without having to su first. The permissions on ppp (which I have never changed) are -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 86016 Nov 16 09:57 /usr/sbin/ppp cheers, Carey ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================