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Re: pon dial-up and xdm



Daniel Burrows wrote:
> 
> I am trying to allow dial-up access using pon but want to avoid 'su'ing
> to root everytime. Is there a way round this?

Add the user you want to have dialup access to the group 'dip' e.g. (as
root)

adduser jon dip

user jon can then use pon/poff

> 
> Also, I want to avoid booting into a graphical login. Can someone tell
> me which parts of xdm I need to edit? I tried renaming it but it screwed
> up my system. Step-by-step please, I'm a beginner!

Everyone's a beginner at some point...anyway,

(again, as root)

dpkg --purge xdm

will scrub xdm from your system

Jonathan


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