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To: Narana Kannappan <narana@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: ppp permissions 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> I have some permission problems with user ppp.
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions ?

The ppp that ships with 2.2.5 insists that you are uid 0 unless 
running ppp in -direct mode.  If you don't like this behaviour (many 
people don't), download and install the latest version from 

  http://www.freebsd.org/~brian

and take a look that the PERMISSIONS section of the man page.

> 
> Thanks,
> Narana.
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