Subject: Re: pppd and non-root users?
To: Paul Newhouse <newhouse@rockhead.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/15/2000 21:02:45
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 07:12:50PM -0800, Paul Newhouse wrote:
> >Hi. I'm running NetBSD 1.4.1 on i386. pppd works properly (thank
> >you to those who helped me earlier) for root, but not for any other user.
> >I have included the necessary directories in the user's path (su root
> >allows pppd to be used, as well as su - root). However, if I try to
> >initiate pppd (pppd call ispx) I get an error about pppd not being able to
> >find /etc/ppp/options. I tried creating a .ppprc file, and that didn't
> >work either... any suggestions?
> >
> >Dominic R. Jones
> >The University of Utah
> >jonesd@acm.org
> 
> Check out sudo in pkgsrc/security, it works for me ;)

I think you just need to be in group 'dialer' for this. Works for me.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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