From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 11 17: 6:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from etcomp.com (abish.lightrealm.com [209.203.233.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D9F715476 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:06:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eric@etcomp.com) Received: from etcomp.com (1Cust33.tnt8.providence.ri.da.uu.net [63.16.37.33]) by etcomp.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA02054 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:06:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <387BD3DC.FFA09966@etcomp.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:07:40 -0500 From: "eric@etcomp.com" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to let a user use PPP {thanks everyone! References: <387BB4D5.C4EACA81@etcomp.com> <20000112125104.E4162@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG thanks to everyone that helped me! Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 05:55:17PM -0500, eric@etcomp.com wrote: > > > hi., i'm wondering., how do i let a regular user., use PPP to dial to > > the ISP.. MSN. thanks i don't like to dialup using root ., ya know > > Add the user to the network group in /etc/group. > Add "allow user username" to your ppp.conf. > > Alternatively, you could set up ppp to run as a daemon with > dial-on-demand. > > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. -- . 'i trust i can rely on your vote' -radiohead [http://radiohead.co.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message