user based dialup.

[Michael Vogt]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:28:34PM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> I am trying to allow a user that isn't a sudoer to connect to the Net via 
> dialup.
> 
> I have failed in all the various ways, both "official ubuntu" (stuff I 
> could get from main) and anything suggested in #ubuntu, I am ready to 
> examine something and file bug reports if it doesn't seem to be working 
> right.

There has been some discussion about this at the last developer
conference. We stick to gnome-system-tools because it can do both
modem and isdn and integrates well in the gnome enviroment. It has the
(pretty big) disadvantage that the user needs sudo right for
network-admin.
 
I had good results with gnome-ppp. Make sure your user is in the "dip"
group and that you configured the right modem port. It does not
support isdn though.

In the long term, NetworkManager is probably the best choice.

Cheers,
 Michael

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