[Computerbank] PPP and the CAISA Install

[Price, Tim]

> Is there any better way to set this up? I'm sure there is but I can't
> quite work it out.

You should add users that you want to use the dialup connection to the
'dialout' group

	#adduser david dialout

Use the commands 'pon' & 'poff' to initiate & close the connection

Try not to use sudo - it's easy to setup in an insecure fashion if you dont
know what you're doing...

-t


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Lloyd [mailto:lloy0076 at adam.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2003 8:09
> To: computerbank at lists.linux.org.au
> Subject: [Computerbank] PPP and the CAISA Install
> 
> 
> 
> Hi There,
> 
> 
> I have setup someone's PPP using pppconfig. I've current got:
> 
>  sudo pppd /dev/ttySHCF0 file /etc/peers/picknowl
> 
> ...working (having setup sudo by reading the deliberately 
> confusing sudo
> man page). I've wrapped this and a killall -9 pppd in:
> 
>  pppon
>  pppoff
> 
> Person wants multiple people to be able to log on. People in a
> particular group, eg "pppusers".
> 
> Is there any better way to set this up? I'm sure there is but I can't
> quite work it out.
> 
> 
> DSL
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