From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 23 05:17:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA14896 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 05:17:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from prometheus.projectx.com.au (prometheus.projectx.com.au [203.21.104.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA14887 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 05:17:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bakshish@projectx.com.au) Received: from projectx.com.au (ts0-008.projectx.com.au [203.21.104.137]) by prometheus.projectx.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA07655 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:28:00 +0900 (EST) Message-ID: <3680DFF9.C39798F4@projectx.com.au> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 23:20:12 +1100 From: Guy Penfold X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: tun0 and user permissions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Have succesfully installed PPP and is working fine in root however, when logged in as a user cannot get PPP to start i get the following % ppp Working in interactive mode No tunnel device is available (Permission denied) Warning: OpenTunnel : No such device or directory I have changed permissions on /dev/tun0 from crw------- to crw-rw---- and have added the user to the group dialer in /etc/groups however it still does not work. Any assistance with this would be appreciated. regards guy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message