From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Mar 10 10:15:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CADD37B401; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:15:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mirror01.iptelecom.ua (mirror01.iptelecom.ua [212.9.224.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB8643F75; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:15:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from victorbob@bigmir.net) Received: from ipcard.iptcom.net ([212.9.224.5]:20492 "EHLO vircheck.ipcard.iptcom.net") by smtp1.iptelecom.net.ua with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:15:21 +0200 Received: from mail.i.com.ua (h105.227.dialup.iptcom.net [212.9.227.105]) by vircheck.ipcard.iptcom.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id h2AIF9UQ096142; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:15:10 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:43:01 +0000 From: Victor Anyakin To: Peter Pentchev 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> Organization: N/A X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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 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 directives of ppp manual page is out of date.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