[wellylug] easy dialup settings?

[Rob Stockley]

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 04:12, James Fitzsimons wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to think of a way that would enable my wife (not Linux
> savvy) to be able to dial and disconnect from our ISP.
> 
> Ideally what I would like is an icon I can put on her kde desktop which
> would work they same way as a dialup shortcut in windows.
> 
> At the moment I have to go through the following commands to dial out:
> - su to root
> - slmodemd /dev/slamr0 // this starts a user mode daemon for my winmodem
> in my laptop
> - ppp start // actually calls the ISP
> 
> I would like to avoid my wife having to open terminal windows and change
> user to root etc... as aside from the obvious risks to the system, she
> will probably freak out ;-)
> 
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
> James Fitzsimons

Script it and use sudo

Rob