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Re: Initiating pppd as a user
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Sun Nov 1 15:16:18 1998
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 15:15:43 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Rich Shepard wrote:
> I've tried to set up the system so users can initiate pppd and killall
> pppd. It's not working.
It is not file permissions problem. It is a configuration somewhere,
but it doesn't matter. Linuxconf handles it for you once you have
the upgrades.
Get all the RH5.1 upgrades installed. There are lots of security and
usability
improvements - its worth it.
Then use linuxconf and nothing more, to add a "ppp0" connection for your ISP.
Do not use a text editor, unless you want to see what linuxconf did to make it
work.
Check the box that linuxconf that allows users to start/stop the connection.
It will work fine - it did for me on 3 machines I set up.
Then a user can type /sbin/ifup ppp0 successfully.
Cheers,
Jan
>
>
> On our RH5.1 network, /usr/sbin/pppd as the permissions:
>
> -rwsrwsrwx 1 root root 104876 Apr 23 1998 /usr/sbin/pppd
>
> which I thought would allow a user to initiate a connection to our ISP.
>
> Will someone please tell me what I need to do so individuals can dial up
> the ISP, check mail (or a web site), then shut down the connection?
>
> If pppd is not the best process, I will happily use whatever works. I
> tried installing ezppp in X, but that was when I was running the system with
> only me as a user. It's not working now in any case. If that's a good
> option, please advise in which directory it should be installed. I can
> always add it to the desktop (xfce now, kde soon).
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Rich
>
> Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
> Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.
> 2404 SW 22nd Street
> Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 U.S.A.
> + 1 503-667-4517 (voice) | + 1 503-667-8863 (fax)
> rshepard@appl-ecosys.com
>
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