On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:52:09AM +0530, Parameshwara Bhat wrote: > > >Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:34:50 +0200 > >From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Subject: Re: Thread Hijacking - Digest 1451 > >To: pbhat@xxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora Core releases > <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >Message-ID: <1080599690.7065.741.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > >>Am Mo, den 29.03.2004 schrieb Parameshwara Bhat um 20:31: > > >Suggestion well-taken.Using old Digest is a habit from Opera mailing > >List where submision is not accepted otherwise. > > >We all are in a fluent learning process. > > >Thank you.By the by,do you have any idea on the subject : "Howto use > >kppp as normal user?" > > >I never used kppp. So I only can guess. The documentation > >/usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.42.2/sysconfig.txt know the option > >USERCTL=yes. Maybe that is usable for kppp too and allows normal users > >to set up and down the device. > > Even somebody else suggested that.But to use that my system should have > a file like ifcfg-kppp under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ which it > doesn't have. > >> > >>Alexander > > Thank you, > > Parameshwara Bhat Using kppp as an ordinary user is straight forward if you execute /usr/sbin/kppp and not /usr/bin/kppp. Also set pppd suid root. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
