[aclug-L] Re: sound, modem under RedHat 6.0

["Jeffrey L. Hansen" <jlhansen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, that's right.  I forgot about about that.  Now's my chance to try it
out.

jeff


On Sun, 9 Jan 2000 glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On  9 Jan, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 08:51:56PM -0600, root wrote:
> >> 2) Root's internet connection works fine, but when I created the user
> >> account for me it won't start the modem with kpppd.  It wants the "SUID"
> >> bit set.  Assuming that it wants the superuser to give its blessing
> >> before an internet connection is made, I set my account to the root
> >> group and gave it all the privileges I could find in the configuration
> >> dialog.  Any ideas what I forgot to try?
> 
> what i did was just install sudo, and add my normal user to the list of
> sudo-ers...  then, i changed the script that runs pppd to have 'sudo'
> at the beginning, so any sudo-er can start via that script...  simple
> w/ no permissions or other changes (just the sudoer list)...
> 
> jesse
> 
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