On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 06:59:56AM +0700, Robby wrote:
> dear friends,
>> i just installed RH 6.1 to my system (from RH5.2).
> everything looks fine, except one thing, the system always ask for my
> root password everytime i want to make internet connection.
> here im using kppp, theres always a password windows pop-up before it.
> so i only make connection as root.
> is there another way to not make it happen? thanx in advance
I don't know what GUI tool does this, but take a look at
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0. Look for the
USERCTL=no line. Setting this to yes allows normal (non-root)
users to bring up or down the connection.
Later,
Kenn
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