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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!po!jminor From: jminor@po.Berkeley.EDU (Josh Minor) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: PPP dial out & other trouble Date: 20 Mar 1995 05:43:44 GMT Organization: University of California, at Berkeley Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3kj4mg$t55@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3ki14s$ckb@redwood.northcoast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: po.eecs.berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] dale@northcoast.com wrote: : One FAQ I read said to add the user login that was going to use ppp to : the dialer group. I can't figure out how to set additional groups for : a user beyond the one group specified in chpass. ...So I've had to do : my experimentation logged in as root. : Also, I've been unable to "su root" from my user login even though I : created it in group 0 (wheel). Su looks at the /etc/group file to see if the user if in the group wheel (0). You may need to add the users there by hand. Sorry I can't help you with the ppp stuff. My modem is cua01 and ppp worked fine as soon as I followed the ppp.doc instructions. Josh