PPP Configuration Problems!

[Brian Somers]

> On 31 Aug 99, at 21:18, Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, I was away :-]
> 
> Good holiday?

Relaxing - with no children :-)

> > You can ``allow users *'' if you wanna let everyone in.
> > 
> > WRT the Operation not permitted bit, is ppp installed properly ?  
> > This error would result if ppp tried to open the tun device as a 
> > normal user :-/  Is there anything ``manual'' being done when 
> > installing ppp ?
> 
> FWIW I've seen a similar thing with PPPoISDN, 
> 
> [rich at zippy ~]groups
> wheel users network
> [rich at zippy ~]ls -al /usr/sbin/ppp
> -r-sr-xr--  1 root  network  224536 Aug  5 19:16 /usr/sbin/ppp
> [rich at zippy ~]grep allow /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
>  allow users rich
> [rich at zippy ~]ppp demon
> bash: /usr/sbin/ppp: Permission denied
> [rich at zippy ~]

Well, the problem's with permissions rather than anything to do with 
the ``allow users'' command - bash is complaining here.

I don't know what bash is complaining about though - things look ok 
from where I'm sitting (and they work ok here).

> I've never looked at it any further as it's not a problem for me to run 
> ppp as root as it's a single user box. PPP was installed correctly and is 
> version 990805.
> 
> Rich
> -- 
> rich at dynamite.org                 rich at FreeBSD.org.uk
> If that's what they call normal, I'd rather be insane

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