[97156] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Initiating pppd as a user
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Saltzman)
Sun Nov 1 15:25:18 1998
From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs@math.clemson.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 15:24:23 -0500 (EST)
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Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> I've tried to set up the system so users can initiate pppd and killall
>pppd. It's not working.
>
> 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?
The RedHat admin tools work just fine to set this up. Follow the
menus
Linxconf-->Networking-->PPP/SLIP/PLIP-->ppp0-->Hardware
and select "Allow any user...". Or
Control-panel-->Network Configuration-->Interfaces-->Edit ppp0
and select "Allow any user...". The tools make all the necessary changes.
If you properly configure everything else along the way, then any user
will be able to run "ifup ppp0" or "ifdown ppp0" to start or stop the
link.
> 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).
I used to run ezppp under 4.2 and it worked just fine. I assume that
the ezppp RPM at contrib.redhat.com will put everything in the right
places for you. I think KDE has a separate tool built in to handle
this.
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs@clemson.edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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