Re: [techtalk] using ppp as non root user

1999-01-17 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Of course, if you have the right sort of net connection you > can just set the ppp script to run on startup and remain up > the whole time the machine is booted... if you'd like to have your ppp connection up all the time,in debian,you can do it by mv /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot to /etc/ppp/ppp_on

Re: [techtalk] using ppp as non root user

1999-01-17 Thread Sean McAfee
Matthias Holschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After successful installation of the ppp software and my modem I am faced >with the following problem: I want to open the ppp connection as a non >root user and use internet programs like netscape, telnet, ftp ... . >For the moment I have two possi

Re: [techtalk] using ppp as non root user

1999-01-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Matthias Holschneider wrote: > After successful installation of the ppp software and my modem I am faced > with the following problem: I want to open the ppp connection as a non > root user and use internet programs like netscape, telnet, ftp ... . > For the moment I have two

Re: [techtalk] using ppp as non root user

1999-01-16 Thread Jenn V.
Matthias Holschneider wrote: > > Here is a maybe stupid question of a newcomer: > I would like to be able to lance as normal user some script that does all > the dialing in for me and sets up the ppp connection readt to use some > internet applications. In particular I do not want to communicate