> If you check Google you come up with countless others who are asking the same > question. It's just that most people seem to put up with a solution that > leaves root vulnerable!
I had another look, and yes, kinternet has 4 programmer names, all @suse.de. Its command line counterpart, cinternet, is listed as "frontend to smpppd". That's "The SuSE Meta PPP Daemon is the back-end for kinternet. It is required for modem, ISDN, and DSL connection." It's all GPL, use it if you feel like it, it'll solve your problem. It worked out of the box for +1y, doesn't require root, and any newby can set it up. And RedHat is the distro the university wants to give to all the newby users - needing to run their dialup desktops stuff as root. Shudder. At the risk of annoying a few people, I will keep on recommending SuSE for beginners ;) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
