Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:33:30 -0500 From: Ron Steele <ron@dc.infi.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User PPP setup woe... Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971126103330.0069d824@shellhost.dc.infi.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971125221514.4344A-100000@uniqsite.com> References: <038301bcfa2a$b97d5360$1d4bb2cc@davidvon>
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At 10:18 PM 11/25/97 -0800, Tim Moony wrote: > > >Oh no no no... What I intended to do was to allow them to connect through >a serial cable and be able to use the ppp command. > >The trouble is, ppp seems to only allow user with user no 0 to use it. >What did I do wrong? > > I am assuming that you want to be able startup ppp as non-0, as opposed to talking over the link once connected. The newer ppp (2.2.5) has new protections in it so you MUST be root to start up the link. I found this to be a pain on my single user workstion (although I am sure all the folk using freebsd as ISP's appreciate it). What I did was grab the code from Brian Sommer's web page at freebsd.org and added a line to change the effective uid to 0. Works like a champ. See man seteuid. You can do this just about anywhere in the top of the program. Seems to me like this ought to be a compiler option. Of course the program must be installed with the set uid bit set, but that is the default anyway. Ron
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