Quote Originally Posted by Loi
Hi ppl

How can i use Dial-up modem with a new user. (without root). can you help me please?
As a tid-bit of information, I use KDE, and under the menu, you can find KPPP for Dial-up...

As your user, locate the KPPP menu entry, it is usually under, let me see where mine is...

KMenu -> Internet -> KPPP ( It may also be under another folder, like Administrator )

Chances are, when you start KPPP, it may want to know the Super User password, root password, it may need access to dome root user information... When you get it started, you will want to set up your connection, the modem, etc... Once it is set up though, you should have it already configured the next time you run it...

Once it is set, and working, placing the icon on your desktop, or in the taskbar, can make connecting a lot easier in the future... This is what I did, I have it right next to KMail and Mozilla, and also XChat icons.

This form of starting your "connection", is using your "user" account, and not "root", you can verify this, by, using a very nice command in a root Konsole ps auxw - as seen below:
Code:
root@neo:~# ps auxw
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.0    120    56 ?        S    Oct15   0:00 init [5]

...

root      4116  0.0  0.0   2692   432 tty1     Ss+  Oct15   0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
root      4122  0.0  0.0   2692   432 tty2     Ss+  Oct15   0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
root      4123  0.0  0.0   2692   432 tty3     Ss+  Oct15   0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
root      4124  0.0  0.0   2692   432 tty4     Ss+  Oct15   0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
root      4125  0.0  0.0   2692   432 tty5     Ss+  Oct15   0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
root      4166  0.0  0.0   2692   432 tty6     Ss+  Oct15   0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6

...

cuddles  32188  0.0  1.8  78940 19080 ?        S    07:28   0:00 kppp -icon kppp -miniicon kppp
root     32189  0.0  1.1  60744 11368 ?        Ss   07:28   0:00 kppp -icon kppp -miniicon kppp
root     32198  0.0  0.1  13960  1596 ttyS0    Ss+  07:29   0:00 pppd 57600 -detach call kppp-options xonxoff defaultroute usepeerdn
cuddles  32241  0.1  3.4 129052 35780 ?        S    07:29   0:01 kmail -check -caption KMail -icon kmail -miniicon kmail
cuddles  32575  1.5  3.3 179648 34316 ?        Sl   07:32   0:14 /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox http://www.knoppix.
cuddles    312  0.0  0.9  95140  9772 ?        Sl   07:45   0:00 kio_pop3 [kdeinit] kio_pop3 pop3 /tmp/ksocket-cuddles/klaunchergTRP

...

root@neo:~#
The output was rather long, I have a lot of stuff running, that wasnt needed for this example, but, as you can see, my KPPP is running under my "user" account, as well as my email, and my browser. Not sure why an entry exists for KPPP as user root, but, that may be for access to the modem. ( not sure of this, this is conjecture )

I have been using the "provided" KPPP dialer from KDE since I started using Knoppix, and now, with Kanotix, and the set up for it, is pretty simple... Set up your modem, where your modem resides, set up your user login and password, test, and get online. I also include my "user" accounts in the /etc/group file under modem, or it could be a group called "dialup", or something like that. But, using KPPP has been nothing less than painless, all this time.

Hope this helps,
Ms. Cuddles