Tom, Another solution and one I prefer is to use the dial on demain feature. This will automatically start the dialup link once a call is made outside your domain. Works VERY well here using the kernel 2.2.17.
Best of luck tweeking. On Friday 12 January 2001 10:25, Thomas H. George wrote: > On a stand-alone system four users need access to the internet. At > present only root can run pon. I have changed file permissions, > commented auth in /etc/ppp/options, and executed adduser <userid> dip. > Now, when a user tries to start pon, the user gets the message: > > must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not setuid-root > > I have read the manpages for setuid and seteuid but it is not clear to > me what I should change and the consequences of a file being setuid-root > seem undesirable. Can anyone help resolve this problem? > > Tom George -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-268-4074 http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls ICQ# 12741145 This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.
