Re: ppp: allow users

[Alex Farber <Alexander.Farber@t-online.de>]

Thanks for your reply,

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 05:48:49PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > 
> > when I run ppp as root to access my ADSL provider,
> > everything works fine. But I can't connect, when
> > running it as a normal user "alex":
> > 
> Changing permissions on /dev/tun* isn't necessary.

you're right

> This looks as if pppoe(8) is failing.

I believe, it wasn't happy with the /dev/bpf[0-9] permissions. 
After I issued "chmod go+rw /dev/bpf[0-9]", ppp(oe) starts fine 
now as a non-root user. 

Don't you want to mention it in your extensible manpage?