On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:16, rcc wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:23:49 +0100 > > Steffen Barszus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Currently I test LineControl as GUI dial up tool (very nice) ;) > > why does that remind me of kinternet? I think the concept is similar > when used on a local machine... > *grin* Yes the pixmap is very similar . (the same ?) And yes something like kinternet is needed for mandrake. I had last week a user that asked how to establish the internet connection without setting it to "dialup at boot" and reboot. (<= LOL)
> > it would be fine to create a group dialup on installation (or is there > > one in mandrake?) > > pppusers? But that has given me headaches without end. On all dial up > machines I installed there were weird permissions probs. I guess I could help you on that. ;) The pppd manpages proposes to use peer scripts. A user can execute pppd , but can only do well defined things. One of this things is to start defined dial up connections. This connections are configured under /etc/ppp/peers/, for example /etc/ppp/peers/isp1. pppd call isp1 would start the dialup then. The pppd should be running as uid root then so no ownership of devices needs to be changed. (I know you have not asked ;)) Related question: Where do the device settigs belong to ? Are they initially set by the kernel package ? > > > and set the rights and ownership on /sbin/isdnctrl > > and the devices right. As I read is a user (with isdn4k-utils 3.2pre3) > > only allowed to dial and hangup with isdnctrl, so another reason for > > updating isdn4k-utils. > > I guess I have to do that myself for now it's probably too late for 9.1 > _If_ you going to make it, I have yet another bug open for some changes on isdn4k-utils-packaging and i can mail you a .config for the package. Since there are no important security flaws in it I guess it is to late. BTW: The vbox-examples are missing too. (another open bug from me ;)) Some notes for after release: The packaging: Currently : 1 monster rpm with 5mb As it is proposed by isdn4linux and done by debian: isdn-utils isdn-active-cards vbox2 .... ..... For active cards (and AVM cards) would capi4hylafax be interesting (something for contrib). I know all that has time now, but maybe it would be good for next release. -- Regards Steffen ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
