From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 15 10:16:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01084 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:16:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hecate.webcom.com (hecate.webcom.com [209.1.28.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01054 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:16:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from kigal.webcom.com (kigal.webcom.com [209.1.28.57]) by hecate.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA21277; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:16:28 -0800 Received: from [209.122.117.150] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 15875528; Tue Dec 15 10:14 PST 1998 Message-Id: <3676A789.1A59@echidna.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:16:41 -0500 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Davidson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Newbie - Users and Groups References: <00c201be284c$d18a9b60$6000a8c0@alexd> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex Davidson wrote: > What am I missing here? Strikes me there's got to be a way to allow users > 1) the same access as root, or 2) some of the access that root has like > running ppp but not necessarily changing the ppp.conf file - I would like 1) > for myself but 2) for others. Regarding ppp, by default it can only be started by root, but by adding an "allow users" command to your ppp.conf file, you can permit any or all users to run it, and give them varying degrees of access. See man ppp and the ppp.conf.sample . -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message