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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Announcement: Daemon for managing dialup internetconnections
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-06-25 10:06:14
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Bjoern Kahl wrote:
>  But I don't know why we should use it. (Never understood why kppp,
>  xppp, kisdn and friends make sense: I configure how to connect or
>  disconnect when I install the system, and after that point, i just
>  type in "goonline" or click on a button, which in turn start
>  isdnctrl or pppd. (Normal user should not play with
>  systemconfiguration, and networksetup is part of
>  systemconfiguration, IMHO. Especially on multiuser machines).)

If the normal user is the owner of the machine, he/she will be 
the one who has to do the system configuration. kppp, kisdn et al.
are ways to make this part of the configuration easier.

Cheers,
Waldo

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