On 9/25/05, Glen Roy centos@cooyal.com wrote:
I need all users to be able to dial into the Internet using either kppp or whatever without being asked for a root password. I only have dial-up, thanks to Telstra. I've searched for days and tried various things but no luck. Please help me out with simple, step-by-step instructions aimed at a new user. I tried changing permissions, creating dialout group and adding users but no luck. Hope to hear from someone soon in regards to this issue.
Use "neat" First start neat and give root password when prompted, add modem in hardware tab by clicking on new. Then in the Devices tab click new and create a modem connection giving all details. After hitting finish again click on the edit for modem connection. You will see "Allow users to start" box tick this while "Activate at start" should be unticked. Test modem connection by activating modem and de-activating.
Now users can start / stop this connection from menu Application>System Tools>Network Device Control or by command "system-control-network"
Basically neat uses /etc/wvdial.conf file to store dial up details and uses wvdial command. HTH Sudev Barar Learning Linux