On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 10:37:09AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > hi, I wonder whether any body can help. i am trying to get my system (halve > bo, halve hamm) to dial-up the internet. yes it works, but only by running > pon as root. i want to have a cgi-script so that all my users on win95 boxes > can dial-up (this box does ip masq). how?
When I installed ppp from the .deb file pppd was setuid root by default. I had to add read permission for group (dip) to ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out so user accounts (members of group dip) could start pon. I have been told that I could setup diald to autorun pon whenever I start netscape (or any other program requesting internet access) and that this should work with ip masq when a client on a windows box networked to the linux machine does the same. I havn't tried this yet, but I will as soon as I get the eithernet card installed in my windows machine and hook the two together. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]