CACTUX
A Penn State Connection Manager for Linux
About
The goal of this project is to provide a graphical internet connection manager
for Penn State students, faculty, staff and affiliates who are running Linux.
CACTUX aims to require a minimal amount of configuration from the user in order
to establish an Internet connection while also resembling the official
Penn
State Connection interface as closely as possible.
Screen Shots
- Main Screen
- Properties Screen
- Phone Book Screen
Requirements
The goal is to require as little from the user as possible. The only thing
the CACTUX binary requires you to have installed is pppd and chat. Most users
should probably already have these installed by default.
If you prefer to build from the source code instead, you will need to have
have the X graphical development libraries (including libXpm) additionally
installed.
Why CACTUX is suid root: Because CACTUX calls pppd to open the
modem device, it needs root privileges. To do so, you could either run
CACTUX as root, or run a suid-root binary. I'm concerned that if people
do the former, they may accidently stay logged in as root after
they launch CACTUX, and I'd like to discourage people using root as their
default account.
Download
Keep your shirt on -- it's coming..
Contacts
Yeah, that's right, I wrote this. Big whoop.
If you have any questions, shoot me an e-mail.
Check out my other projects if you get a chance..
Also, be sure to check out the Penn
State Linux User's Group for tips, tricks and advice that is sure to make
your computing experience a whole lot better.
© Copyright 2001 by Brian Ecker
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