Another possibility would be to make the ppp scripts world
readable/executable. Of course, this creates a big security hole,
allowing anyone with access to your machine to bring the ppp link up or
down (and possibly allowing anyone to see your password if you do a script
login to your ppp server).
A better solution would be to create some suid wrappers only readable by
you, or a particular group. I think the ppp howto actually has some
information about this.
Michael
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Tim Fairchild wrote:
> > Thanks to those who answered my question on setting up Netscape. Now for
> > another question. I have my modem configured and netscape working from
> > root. How do I access this from my regular user account? If I activate the
> > modem from root and then log out will the modem disconnect? Can I activate
> > the modem from my user account and if so how? I'm using RHL 4.2.
>
> Not sure what you use to start your connection, but all you need to do
> is log on in the user account and open an xterm or whatever and use the
> su command to gain root access from there - then run netcfg or
> control-panel or whatever you do when logged in as root. I also use 4.2
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