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(a)uni-bielefeld.de>
>Subject: Re: Thread Hijacking - Digest 1451
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>>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.
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