From: Victor Anyakin <victorbob@bigmir.net> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: trhodes@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PPP Manual page Message-ID: <20030310194301.2e2a0d9a.victorbob@bigmir.net> In-Reply-To: <20030310121655.GK578@straylight.oblivion.bg> References: <20030308211153.23a0da0f.victorbob@bigmir.net> <20030308150358.1c127303.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20030310121655.GK578@straylight.oblivion.bg>
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Hello, yes, this information is given in manual page, thanks. But if a user seeks for the combination of 'allow users', then he can skip the section and will know nothing about group requirements. Best regards, Victor Anyakin On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:16:55 +0200 Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:03:58PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 21:11:53 +0000 > > Victor Anyakin <victorbob@bigmir.net> wrote: > > > > > Hello! > > > I'm using FreeBSD-4.4, sought the trouble described below may also > > > remain in FreeBSD-5.0 (according to the HTML-Man Pages at > > > FreeBSD.org). It seems to me that the section of 'allow user[s]' > > > directives of ppp manual page is out of date. As at the current moment > > > ppp requires the user to be in a network group. And man page says > > > nothing about such a requirement. > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > Do you have a replacement text idea that we can add? Perhaps it will > > be of use to other users. > > Actually... what is wrong with the below - directly cut'n'pasted from the > third bullet item in the GETTING STARTED section of > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current&format=html > > Make sure that your system has a group named ``network'' in the > /etc/group file and that the group contains the names of all users > expected to use ppp. Refer to the group(5) manual page for details. > Each of these users must also be given access using the ``allow > users'' command in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. > > G'luck, > Peter > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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