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Subject: Re: Problems with -current ppp 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > > Well, this is a one-user box, so that's not really a concern.  In any case,
> > > Brian informed me in private mail of a neat little trick to accomplish what
> > > I wanted.
> > 
> > Tell me your IP address and the hours when you're generally on and
> > surfing.  I'll show you how "one user" that box is. ;-)
> 
> Do you also accept the pathname of a local-domain socket, Jordan? :-)

The "publishable" bit about the "trick" was to set up a script (say 
pppcmd) that's not readable/writable by anyone except you that does

#! /bin/sh
exec pppctl -v -p mypassword 3000 "$@"

You can then start ppp -auto, and talk to it with things like

$ pppcmd dial
$ pppcmd close
$ pppcmd set timeout 300
$ pppcmd show ipcp

Of course making this a unix domain socket makes it even tighter 
(although on my LAN, I have many of these scripts that all talk to 
the gateway, therefore I need the tcp socket).

> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

-- 
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      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....