>
> Hi,
> First of all, I must say that, currently, I'm using netcfg to
> connect to the network as I couldn't make Xisp or ezPPP to work for
> me. While on the other hand, everytime I have to login as root to
> connect to the internet (netcfg requires administrative privilage)
> If you can tell me how can I give a normal user access to run netcfg,
> I'd appreciate it!
>
> Ok, now let's talk about those two utilitis. ezPPP---I can dialout
> and get connected...in about 1 minute, it will disconnect with "An
> unexpected error in PPPD daemon" --->This is regardless I'm root or
> normal user.
> As for the xISP goes....it doesn't even initialize the modem---
>
> Anybody who has experience with any of these two app, or have any
> other pointer for me, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
>
> Note: I created a group call PPP and I did chown root:PPP pppd and
> chmod XXXX pppd (according to somebody else's suggestion) but didn't
> make any difference.
>
> Its becoming very annoying as I only can connect while root so, when I
> go to IRC or something, I get "don't connect as root" and disconnects
> me.
>
>
>
In netcfg set up ppp to allow any user to start/stop the connection. Then any
user can use the RedHat program UserNet (part of the RH5.0 distribution) to
easily control the ppp interface.
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