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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)
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Matthew Hirsch
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