Sharing of kppp among ordinary users.
Parameshwara Bhat
pbhat at ongc.net
Thu Apr 1 05:21:59 UTC 2004
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:54:30 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
>
>> Dear Jeff Vian,
>>
>> It does work.Thank you very much.
>>
>> But for sudo to work,it appears,an open terminal seems to be
>> necessary.When I vreated an icon for connection and gave command 'sudo
>> "usr/sbin/kppp" ' it didn't work until I ran with the option 'open in
>> terminal'.A little crude it feels.Is it possible to do without that ?
>
> Glad to help with gettin them set up.
>
> As far as your next question I really do not know. I use the command
> line a lot and never have needed to do a sudo command from an icon so ??
> If they have a terminal open, closing it will kill the kppp session so
> it may not be an issue.
That is an issue! I closed the terminal and pppd process was on till I was
surprised when I received a reply mail to the mail I had just sent.When I
looked up the process table pppd was on.I haven't tried it again as now I
have broken the link between kppp and consolehelper to make it point
direct to the kppp program (somebody suggested that on the list ) and set
permissions and group ownership so that I can replicate dial up settings
on each user separately.That is more practical as other members in the
family are not as familiar.
I can alternatively use webmin to connect which in the backend uses wvdial.
Thanx everybody who helped giving diff suggestions.
>
> Maybe you should ask this question on the list,, about running a
> session like this without opening a terminal..
>
Yes, I definitely would like somebody to point me to online manual page
about iconifying applications(Desktop link to applications) and Run a
Command.I am not clear about all the options there.
Parameshwara Bhat
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