From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 3 13:00:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA09492 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 13:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Bayou.UH.EDU (jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU [129.7.1.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA09430 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 13:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jef53313@localhost) by Bayou.UH.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA30829 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 15:00:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 15:00:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Only root can use ppp or tun0? In-Reply-To: <199710031831.OAA15103@pop.cc.nih.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a somewhat similar problem. In order for any non-root users to be able to do things like run telnet, irc, tinyfugue, or other net apps on my computer I have to have them on group wheel. How can I change this so I can put them in the generic users group? Jonathan Fosburgh, wotan@scientist.com , University of Houston Geophysics ******************************************************************************* We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of our exploring shall be to arrive Where we started from, and know the place for the first time. --T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets *******************************************************************************