[wellylug] Have a script prompt for root password

[jumbophut]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Nathan Cook wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've created a small script so that I can connect to the internet with one
> of the new Telecom TSticks. The script needs to be run as root though.
>
> <snip>
>
> Is it even a good idea to have this run as root, would it be better to allow
> the user to run pppd?
>

On my machine, the default was that anyone in the 'dip' group could
run pppd, so I just added my main login to that group.  I also had to
make sure the 'noauth' option was ON in the pppd conf file.

I'm on Debian rather than SUSE so I'm not sure whether or not this is
appropriate for your situation.

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