user based dialup.

[Carl Karsten]

Michael Vogt wrote:
> 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.

Is NetworkManager = gnome-system-tools/network-admin ?

If it currently reqires sodu, should I file a bug against it?

Carl K