The HOWTO says you could setuid the root which is VERY dangerous for multiuser setups... What I currently use is sudo . you could download sudo from sunsite (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu) ************************************************************************* Mark Anthony J. Mercado [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laguna Internet, Incorporated Rm 404 Vega Centre, Lopez Avenue, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines 4030 Ph. 63 49 536.0085, 63 49 536.0058 Fax. 63 49 536.0067 ************************************************************************* At 12:44 AM 6/12/99 +0200, ali wrote: >i've got ppp 2.3.7 running on RH6.0. on a single desktop machine. >what I want to do is connect to my isp with my user account ie. not with >the root account. (i can successfully connect to my ISP using my root >account) > >to do this i'm using the 'call' option in pppd but this doesn't work. >i get the error: 'must be root to run pppd, since it is not setuid-root' [rest deleted] ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
