Alternatives that don´t suck?

[Leon Goldstein]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:

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>>  * Edit the file: /etc/ppp/options as follows:
>>        o change the line: auth to noauth
>>        o comment out the line, lock i.e. #lock
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>doesn't this change effectively allow multiple users to simultaneously
>control the modem?  If so, that seems rather bad.
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You bet.  When I discovered this "trick" back in the Corel  Linux days I 
was a bit bothered too.
It's NBD for a single-user desktop.  To repeat myself,  I fail to see 
the reasoning of the Debian high priests in making user access to dialup 
such a PITA.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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