New user / Help:How to connect to internet without passwords.

[argyro4fd]

Hi everyone. I am new to Linux and I would appreciate some help.
I am running Fedora4 in my system which I installed only a week ago. With the help of this forum I managed to get my external modem to work and connect to the internet.
My problem is that I can connect to the internet in my root account by activating my logical device (account) through the Network Configuration tool but I cannot do the same thing when I have longed on as the default simple user the system has created during installation. Every time I try to open the Network Configuration tool I get a popup that asks for my root password etc.
I understand that I have to give privileges to the simple user but I don’t know how.
In other words I want to connect to the internet from my unprivileged account without root passwords. I hope you can help.

Thank you in advance.

[Shakes]

I think the solution to this is more likely to have the configuartion saved somehow for all users to use. How exactly do you configure it every time?

[le_random]

somewhere in the network configuration there is an option to allow normal users to control the device - I'll check where it is when I get home - Then one of the panel applets can be used to connect and disconnect (If I remember correctly).

[le_random]

You can allow users to control the device in System-Config-Network (Desktop -> System Settings -> Network), then providing you have set up all the ppp information, including your internet username & password in system-config-network, any user can activate the device from
Applications (Or Red Hat) -> System tools -> Network Device Control
To turn off the internet, simply select Deactivate.

If you want a panel icon for this, you can use the "Network Monitor" panel applet to bring up Network Device Control by double-clicking, and it has the added benefit of letting you know when there is network activity. If I remember, the "Modem Lights" applet doesn't bring the connection up or down properly.

Hope this helps