[wellylug] easy dialup settings?

[James Fitzsimons]

Hi Rob,
thanks for the suggestion. I will give it a go and see how it works out.
Hopefully I can convince my wife that the terminal isn't as scary as it
looks!

Cheers,
James

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 06:31, Rob Stockley wrote:
> 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
>