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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
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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