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Re: SEUL: PPP and scripting



> 
> About ppp : the concern that  you need to start ppp as root for the most
> part, you can't do it from a shell window , and yopu can't do it by
> clicking a button on a menu.
> 
> There's a couple of things that could be done about this :
> 
> (a)	give group permissions to allow selected users to start ppp
> (b)	IMO better: there's something somebody mentioned called diald
> which fires up the internet connection whenever it's needed. 
> 
> In any case, we need a way for non-root users to be able to start ppp
> (directly or indirectly).
> 
> -- DonovAN

This was simply solved on IRC I just forgot totally about sudo.
Setup a button on your desktop to do:

sudo pon

(or we can use somethink like sudo to do the same thing)

-- 
Matthew Hirsch
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