Re: Sharing of kppp among ordinary users.

[Parameshwara Bhat <pbhat ongc net>]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:54:30 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10 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