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From: Jan Hurst <jhurst@bekkers.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Dial in PPP question
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 14:25:35 +0800
Organization: Bekkers Communications Australia
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Joe McGuckin wrote:
> 
> How do I get this to work? Setting up an account & using ppp as the
> login shell generated a 'permission denied' msg upon login, with the
> session getting dumped off. Do the PPP accounts need to belong
> to a specific user or group?

PPP accounts need to belong to the netdial group (or have some sort of 
access to the appropriate /dev/??? entry)

Jan
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