I should have specified that I am using Linuxconf to configure another user
and when I use the 'users' box and come across the 'privileges' box, my
question regarding that is what should be granted and denied?
I already have configured the PPP and POP box for users to use but each
time I log on as a user, I am unable to dial out.
How can I dial out as a user?
Thanks for any pointers
Richard
At 03:58 AM 10/24/99 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:25:32PM -0700, Richard Salts wrote:
>> What user privileges do I, as root, enact to be able to enable an ordinary
>> user to be able to dial up the Internet and use browser, e-mail, chat, etc?
>
>The only thing you have to do is allow them to dialup. Everything else is
>automatically available.
>
>Depending on what you're using to connect to the Internet, it's easy to
>allow normal users to make the connection:
>
> Kppp: just set up kppp for that user. They start the connection
> just like root.
>
> netcfg: there's a checkbox to "allow normal users to (de)activate
> the connection, put a checkmark in it and save all the
> way back out. Users use
>
> /sbin/ifup ppp0 # to connect
> /sbin/ifdown ppp0 # to disconnect
>
> or
> usernet
>
> which is just a one button window that you click
> to connect and click to disconnect.
>
>
>Does anyone else get the idea that we've got too damn many ways to
>accomplish one thing?
>
>--
>Steve Philp
>Network Administrator
>Advance Packaging Corporation
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
