Re: pon dial-up and xdm

2000-05-09 Thread Oki DZ
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > there is something like the "dip" group (i think), to which you would add > users, which are allowed to dial in. "dip", it is. > > Also, I want to avoid booting into a graphical login. Can someone tell > > me which parts of xdm I need to edit? I

Re: pon dial-up and xdm

2000-05-08 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Sun, 07 May 2000, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I am trying to allow dial-up access using pon but want to avoid 'su'ing > to root everytime. Is there a way round this? > > Also, I want to avoid booting into a graphical login. Can someone tell > me which parts of xdm I need to edit? I tried renaming i

Re: pon dial-up and xdm

2000-05-07 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Daniel Burrows wrote: > > I am trying to allow dial-up access using pon but want to avoid 'su'ing > to root everytime. Is there a way round this? Add the user you want to have dialup access to the group 'dip' e.g. (as root) adduser jon dip user jon can then use pon/poff > > Also, I want to av

Re: pon dial-up and xdm

2000-05-07 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I am trying to allow dial-up access using pon but want to avoid 'su'ing > to root everytime. Is there a way round this? > there is something like the "dip" group (i think), to which you would add users, which are allowed to dial in. > Also, I want to avoid booting into a graphical login. Can so

pon dial-up and xdm

2000-05-07 Thread Daniel Burrows
I am trying to allow dial-up access using pon but want to avoid 'su'ing to root everytime. Is there a way round this? Also, I want to avoid booting into a graphical login. Can someone tell me which parts of xdm I need to edit? I tried renaming it but it screwed up my system. Step-by-step please,