Password required to use Modem Monitor Applet

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 06:05 -0400, Luke Seubert wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 08:41 +0300, afmdg wrote:
> 
> > The modem applet uses network-admin program. Then, you need
> > administrator privileges.
> > I don't use it for that.
> > He can try gnome-ppp, frontend of wvdial, who is in universe.
> > You dont' need password. You have no problem with on, off modem.
> > 
> > Michel
> > 
> 
> Thank you Michel. I shall advise my friend to follow your advice.
> 
> It is strange though, that Ubuntu Gnome does not have a proper default
> install of a Panel Applet to run a modem without resorting to password
> access. One shouldn't really have to download such software after an
> install. Not everyone is hooked up to broadband over ethernet. Ah, c'est
> la vie.
> 
> Cheers,
> Luke

I'm on dialup here, and had similar issues with configuring ppp,  using
pppconfig. For what it's worth, everything works fine with the applet
once I make sure the user is in the groups 

dip dialout

Type ` groups ` to check which groups the user is in, and

adduser youruser nameofgroup

to add - then logout/login to make the change take effect

Peter