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From: Ron Steele <ron@dc.infi.net>
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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