Configuring Dial-up

[Bill Cairns]

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David,

Thank you for your patience with a real Linux beginner. I still have a long way to go on the security aspects.

I will be dedicating a large part of this weekend in trying to get my dial up connection to work the way I would like it to. At the moment I am stuck with the System -> Administration -> Networking applet because it is the only one that I can get to work. pppconfig and pon does indeed dial up but Firefox does not recognise the connection. Gnome-ppp does not see my modem at all. The need for a password is (at the moment) more of an irritation than a problem, but the speed of the connection is a real problem.

Bill

>>> ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com 08 December 2005 >>>
Message: 5
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:15:22 +0000
From: David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>but mistakes are easy to make!)

Please re-read what I wrote in my earlier post.

By default, root is disabled on Ubuntu.  When you need to perform tasks
that ask for a password it asks for your _user_ password, not root.
If the user has sufficient privileges the user will be allowed to
perform the task.
 etc

David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>