Start pppoe adsl connection as non-root user

Submitted by progressdll on Sat, 12/11/2004 - 04:52. HowTos
Posts: 65

Mepis comes with 2 cmdline utils to start a pppoe adsl connect "pon" and "poff".

But you can not use these tools as another user.

I found a solution on this german site : 
http://www.selflinux.org/selflinux/html/adsl07.html

The script is self-explaining ( with german comments ). Just copy it to /usr/bin

fire up "visudo" and add the user that needs to use the script.
This is also explained in the link.

bug: re-configure pppoeconf after reboot

Submitted by progressdll on Sat, 12/11/2004 - 11:17.
Posts: 65

I still suffer from the bug where i need to 
re-configure eveything from the start with pppoeconf after a reboot. 

I found a bug report related to this error:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=272581

First i upgraded modutils following the fix in the bugreport
to version 2.4.26-1.1.

That did not fix the problem.

Then i upgraded pppoeconf to version 1.0.11
and also upgraded modutils again to 2.4.26.1.2.

Now my problem is fixed, i believe that it is the 
latest modutils that finally fixes the issue.

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bug: re-configure pppoeconf after reboot

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