Andre writes:
> How can "etc/ppp/ip-up.d/zzdone" know which user started "pon"?  The pppd
> process is owned by root...

Pppd knows who started it.  From the man page:

       The environment variĀ­
       ables that pppd sets are:
       ...
       PPPLOGNAME
              The username of the real user-id that invoked pppd.
              This is always set.
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John Hasler
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Elmwood, Wisconsin

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