how to let non-root user start dial up?

Trevor "TeC" Christian trevor at bouyon.dalive.com
Sat May 7 12:27:46 UTC 2005


Michael A. Peters wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 12:51 -0700, Charles Li wrote:
>  
>
>>I would like to setup a non-root account to use the
>>dialup.  I have it setup in the Network configuration
>>console to activate the dialup, but it needs the root
>>password.  Can you let the non-root account sudo the
>>Network configuration console?  If yes, what is the
>>command to do this?
>>    
>>
>
>I don't have dialup, but I suspect it is the same as for other
>interfaces.
>Go into the System Settings --> Network Configuration menu
>
>Choose the ppp0 device (so it's highlighted)
>Click the Edit button
>
>Check the box that says "Allow All Users to Enable and Disable This
>Device"
>
>Save and exit.
>
>Now, any user logged in at the console can start it by going to
>
>System Tools --> Network Device Control
>
>On my system, I added that to the gnome panel to make it even easier.
>
>
>
>  
>
This could be similarly achieved by adding the line USERCTL="yes" in the 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0

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