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Michael

Quote:> Hi,
>    I've been successfully connecting via PPP through netcfg for a while.
> When creating the new PPP interface, there's an option to allow all
> users to connect/disconnect.  How do I bring up that connection as
> another user, without running netcfg (You must be root to run netcfg)?

Try:

/sbin/ifup ppp0

/sbin/ifdown ppp0

The ifdown command disconnects you, btw. :)

Sometimes ifup commands can get confused -- killall ifup and killall
pppd are good commands to whip out when things aren't working, along
with liberal use of tail -f /var/log/messages and ps ax | grep ppp. :)

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If you're using WindowMaker, there's a nice dockapp called 'wmppp' that makes
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