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?
|
| --
| Steve Philp
| Network Administrator
| Advance Packaging Corporation
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yeah! Ain't it great!?
Ernie
