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rknebel@csrlink.net wrote:
I am trying to make my ppp dialable by normal users. I have done this on other linux systems by the command chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd. This does not change the permissions in suse because I can still not dial out with my normal user status only root. I can change it by going to the file in tkdesk and making it exectable by everyone but as soon as I run SUSEConfig for another reason it will cahnge the permissions and i cannot run it as anything but root again.
The way I got it working for the "normal user" in suse 5.1 was (following the docs) by creating a group (dialout) and adding the users that I wanted to have internet access to that group. It works great, to date, haven't had much luck as far as getting dial on demand to work, but I did find a viable solution, I did find that I could telnet into my linux box from my win95 box, start the script to launch the internet connection, and then access the internet from my win95 machine via my linux box using apache as a proxy server. BTW, using telnet, I have found that I can do everything (text style with no xfree) that I could do on the linux box itself, except use the modem as a device to "dial out to bbs's" but then with the internet and what's all available there, I believe that the world of the BBS has kind of got left behind:-( -- cya l8r Leon McClatchey leonmcclatchey@homemail.com (Win95 Box) -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e