And/or you run "su username -c command" as root from its crontab, /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup, /etc/rc.local or wherever
2005/7/27, Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:26:46 +0200 > Jan Sepp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks, but that would require me to hard-code the password in my > > script, so that will not work. > > No it wouldnt. You can allow users to run commands with sudo without > using passwords. man sudoers.