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From: Tim Moony <timm@uniqsite.com>
To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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Subject: Re: User PPP setup woe... (fwd) 
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On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Brian Somers wrote:

> I'm not sure what the question is.  The error says that the invoking 
> user is not user id 0.....  The man page with that version points out 
> that only uid 0 can run ppp in client mode.
> 
> However, this model didn't suit a lot of people.  The latest version 
> on http://www.freebsd.org/~brian is much more flexable if you wanna 
> download it.
> 

Here's what I need:  I have a couple of users (my family).  I gave them
static IPs so they can connect to their Win95 with null modem cables (unix
is just too much for them). 

So I followed the instruction in user ppp setup in the handbook for static
IPs.  I have an entry in ppp.conf that looked like:

ppp-user1:
 set device /dev/cuaa3
 set speed 57600
 set ifaddr aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd aaa.bbb.ccc.xxx www.xxx.yyy.zzz
 enable proxy

In /etc/passwd I made the shell for user1 to /etc/ppp/ppp-shell.  The
following is what's in /etc/ppp/ppp-shell:

ppp-shell
----------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
IDENT=`echo $0 | sed -e 's/^.*-\(.*\)$/\1/'`
CALLEDAS="$IDENT"
TTY=`tty`

if [ x$IDENT = xdialup ]; then
    IDENT=`basename $TTY`
fi

echo "PPP for $CALLEDAS on $TTY"
echo "Starting PPP for $IDENT"

exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct $IDENT
==========================================

When I login as the user, I got a line in /var/log/messages:

  Nov 26 22:23:58 uniqsite ppp[13756]: Warning: open_tun: No such file or
  directory.

I am not sure what I did wrong.  BTW, I am using ppp-971125 from ~brian
directory.