Is there another way

[Longman, Bill]

> Basically when I go into the terminal I want to have to put 
> in the root 
> password.  What I don't want to have to enter the root 
> password for is 
> for things like kppp.  I just want to be able to launch this so I can 
> connect to the internet.  I want to teach my mother how to use linux 
> and don't want to have to have her enter in the root password 
> each time 
> she wants to connect to the internet or for that matter when ever I 
> want to connect to the internet.

There is another option somewhere, (I don't remember right now, but I'll
take a look), I think it is in the same ifcfg-ethX file, that specifies that
a user can control the interface. Yup, here's the answer:

USERCTL=true

Plunk that into your ifcfg-ppp0 file. See if that works.

Bill