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Date:      Sat, 14 Jul 2001 14:47:51 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <dennis.aspo@pp.inet.fi>
Subject:   Re: PPP problem
Message-ID:  <20010714144534.M31627-100000@localhost.de>
In-Reply-To: <22557.210.11.4.5.995114030.squirrel@grover.logicsquad.net>

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On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:

> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 22:03:50 +0930 (CST)
> From: Paul A. Hoadley <paulh@logicsquad.net>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Cc: dennis.aspo@pp.inet.fi
> Subject: Re: PPP problem
>
>
> > When I run the command ppp to connect to the internet it works fine
> > when logged on as root, but when logged on as my ordinary user, with
> > operator priviliges, it say 'permission denied' Whats wrong?
>
> In /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, add this line:
Actually nothing is wrong. On a multi-user-system root
should be the only one who starts ppp-connections, mounts
files-systems etc.

Uli.

>
> allow user foo,bar,baz
>
> where foo, bar and baz are names of users you want to allow to run ppp.
>
>
> --
> Paul.
>
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