The way I do it now is to log in as my regular account, and su to root to
start ppp. Since I have fvwm, I have one screen for root to keep track of the
system (i.e. I have top and tail -f /var/log/messages in two
xterm sessions). I always use the control-panel for most of my admin stuff,
so it is also up. With the other seven screens I do what ever.
Another way I did it was to have a cron job look for a file every 1 minute or
so. This file if present would
trigger off ppp. I had two scripts in /usr/local/bin called startppp,
stopppp and they would touch or rm the
file.
Now this ezppp I have to check out, but for now I always need root for
something, but I've been using
Linux for too long and I'm just used to being root to start ppp.
smb
Tony Langdon wrote:
> It's 26 May 98 01:47:17,
> We'll return to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and All's
> discussion of Problem just don't leave me alone ;-))
>
> im> Note: I created a group call PPP and I did chown root:PPP pppd and
> im> chmod XXXX pppd (according to somebody else's suggestion) but didn't
> im> make any difference.
>
> Did you put your normal user login in the PPP group? You need to edit
> /etc/group to do this (can't remember if the X tools will do this as
> well).
>
> So the line in /etc/group will read:
>
> ppp:<all the usual junk> yourlogin
>
> (i.e. put your login name as the last thing on the line).
>
> im> Its becoming very annoying as I only can connect while root so, when I
> im> go to IRC or something, I get "don't connect as root" and disconnects
> im> me.
>
> Until you get it fixed, there is a simple workaround. Login as root,
> get your PPP connection up, then type:
>
> su - yourlogin
>
> At which point, you should be logged in as yourself, and can IRC
> happily. :-)
>
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