Or you could setuid on pppd . This is a potential problem on a true
multi-user system, but if you're doing this from a workstation, it should be
no problem. Probably entering (as root)
chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
will do it for you (change the path if that's not where you have pppd). If
not, either the PPP HowTo or perhaps the gnome-dialer docs will cover
anything else that is needed.
At 01:19 PM 5/21/99 +0200, Daniel Knapp wrote:
>> I've got ppp working at last, sort of. I use the app gnome-ppp
>> (current version, 0.2.5 or something like) to dial up and log in.
>> When I run this as root, it works, and the ppp session starts.
>> When I run it as a user, it dials, handshakes, gets through the
>> whole username and password process and then hangs...
>
>That's no error. Only root may connect to the Internet via ppp and not a
>user. Don't forget that connecting to the Internet is an administration
>task.
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