dial up connection

[tech at 204productions.com]

I use pppconfig to setup my dialup and a couple of shell scripts on the
desktop the start and stop pppd.  It's not graphical, but it is simple. 
You would still have to sort the permissions to run it as a regular user.


> Hello.  Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up
> connection for xfce?  I don't wish to use kppp, or gnome-ppp.
>
> I've used wvdial, but I find it only works as root.  As a regular user it
> states that it cannot access pppd, instructing me to check my permissions.
>  I've checked, and regular users have read permission, with the program
> being labelled executable.  Does it need write permission?
>
> Anyway, I would still prefer to find a simple, usable graphical program
> that doesn't rely on kde or gnome.  Installing kppp or gnome-ppp would be
> an excessively large install, I suspect (the programs themselves aren't
> large, but with the various dependencies they would have, I'm guessing
> the actual install would be quite big).
>
> Mark
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