From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 11:39:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03758 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:39:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unix.stylo.it (unix.stylo.it [193.76.98.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA03752 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from styloserver.stylo.it (trust.stylo.it [194.21.207.253]) by unix.stylo.it (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA16716 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:40:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by styloserver.stylo.it with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.12.736) id <01BB6E9F.F789CFC0@styloserver.stylo.it>; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:40:01 +0200 Message-ID: From: Angelo Turetta To: "'freebsd-questions'" Subject: Why only root can open /dev/tun* ? Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:39:46 +0200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.12.736 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="---- =_NextPart_000_01BB6E9F.F78EB1C0" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. Contact your mail administrator for information about upgrading your reader to a version that supports MIME. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB6E9F.F78EB1C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is on a terminal server 2.1.0-R with the ppp(8) built using the sources from -current. If I run ppp(8) as any user other than root, I get the error message: No tunnel device is available. open_tun: No such file or directory I suppose there must be some permission set by default in a very conservative way, but I can't imagine where. ppp config files are world-readable, and I've set /dev/tun* readable/writeable by a group which all the PPP users belong to. What I'm missing ? Thanks. Angelo ----------------------------------------------------------------- Angelo Turetta mailto:aturetta@stylo.it Stylo Multimedia - Bologna - Italy http://www.stylo.it/ ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB6E9F.F78EB1C0--