Linda
Look into masqdialer (check freshmeat). It's a great little client side
tool that lets you control the ppp connection. It has a sever side
component of course, and has clients for all kinds of OSs.
charles
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, linda hanigan wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > If my 11 year old wants to send email, I do not want
> > to give her the root password so she can connect to
> > the internet. I want to set it up so she can do it with
> > her very restricted login.
> > Thanks
> > Linda Hanigan
> >
> A quick and dirty way to do it is to set USERCTL=yes in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0, and the make a menu entry or
> alias for /sbin/ifup ppp0 and /sbin/ifdown ppp0. An alias works well if
> you are working from the command line. This works well if you want manual
> control. If you are running 6.x, you can also play with the demand option
> of pppd. I am not sure how sell that part works, as I was still running
> 5.2 on the machine that was using dialup. Now I have DSL, so I don't do
> much with PPP...
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