On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:25:32PM -0700, Richard Salts wrote:
> > What user privileges do I, as root, enact to be able to enable an ordinary
> > user to be able to dial up the Internet and use browser, e-mail, chat, etc?
>
> The only thing you have to do is allow them to dialup. Everything else is
> automatically available.
>
> Depending on what you're using to connect to the Internet, it's easy to
> allow normal users to make the connection:
>
> Kppp: just set up kppp for that user. They start the connection
> just like root.
>
> netcfg: there's a checkbox to "allow normal users to (de)activate
> the connection, put a checkmark in it and save all the
> way back out. Users use
>
> /sbin/ifup ppp0 # to connect
> /sbin/ifdown ppp0 # to disconnect
>
> or
> usernet
>
> which is just a one button window that you click
> to connect and click to disconnect.
>
>
> Does anyone else get the idea that we've got too damn many ways to
> accomplish one thing?
Hey you forgot diald, and probably a few others :)
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