Connecting to the Internet

[David Hart]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:53:37PM +0200, Bill Cairns wrote:
> The first thing that I found is that it was quite easy to get connected using the standard System > Administration > Networking route. Right click on the title bar to enable an icon to make the connection easier. The disadvantages are:
> 
> - To initiate a dial up to the network requires the root passwork (I would regard that as a huge security flaw)

By default Ubuntu will ask for your user password, not root.  If you
have correct permissions you will be able to connect.

I can't see how you see that as a 'huge security flaw'.  Do you want
_anyone_ to be able to connect your box to the 'big bad internet' by
default?

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David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>