<geek>
I have finally made the big decision to break with MS-Windows on the
home-PC and make it a dedicated Linux box.
That is, after assuring Vanessa that she would be OK with an Evolution
e-mail client, Firefox Browser, and Open Office for any other stuff.
But when it came to getting the dialup (pppd) to do it's thing from her
login, both kppp and wvdial setups required the root password. eh!????
This seems to me to be a pretty silly over-sight (or else I have missed
a really obvious step).
Requiring all the user accounts to enter the root password to access the
internet via dial-up seems to be counter to the whole point of having
separate (non-root) accounts.
The Fedora core 1 install was pretty much "straight out of the box", but
I had to do some fairly geeky tweeks and hacks to get "no-password
auto-dialling".
The various support sites weren't much help either, as most assumed
that you were doing this stuff as root. (One particularly prattish
posting confessed to "only ever using the root shell", having no use for
a GUI ... like why did he bother to comment!)
I guess I should keep looking, but it does seem to be a peculiar
omission.
</geek>