On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, garry wrote: > Would running the "kppp &" as root, then allowing the kids to go for it be No need for these extra layers. Plain old 'pppd' works fine. You can install it 'suid', and any user can "pppd call xxx" where xxx is a file in /etc/ppp/peers . Documented in man pages. -- One seldom sees a monument to a committee.