At 11:46 AM 5/4/98 -0400, Jake Colman wrote:
>
>I successfully got PPP up and running using the network configuration tool
from
>the control panel. It works like a charm. My questions are:
>
>1) How to I get it up and running if I don't want to to start X
ifconfig ppp0 up
ifconfig ppp0 down
>
>2) How do I limit the ability to start/stop PPP to specific users
chmod +s /sbin/ifconfig
chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
This is the easyest way to do it, though it may not be the most secure.
>
>3) Where is the the information used by the network configuration tool
stored?
> I would have expected to find some ifconfig command for interface setup in
> an rc script somewhere but did not find any.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts ifcfg-ppp0
Dan
>
>Thanx!
>
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