Very Computer

I just installed Red Hat 6.2 and have set KDE as my
default desktop.

Previously, I could run Kppp as an ordinary user now
it wants to run only as root.

I tried what the docs said, made a kppp.allow and tried
a group as well.

Still only root can run kppp. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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Neil

Then try this trick, su root and open this file:
/etc/pam.d/kppp

Find this line:
auth       sufficient        /lib/security/pam_rootok.so

and change it to:
auth       sufficient        /lib/security/pam_permit.so

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Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

On 14 Oct 2000 13:11:32 PDT,

see http://www.kppp-archive.freeserve.co.uk/console.html

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http://www.kppp-archive.freeserve.co.uk

Is this documented anywhere?

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Timothy Murphy  

tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

I tried this and it did not work. Are there any other methods
of doing this?

This is just my home pc but I still don't want to be logged in
as root all the time...

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Neil

Using RH6.2, the following is required to be a sole KPPP user
1) PASSWORD PROTECTION
        vi /etc/pam.d/kppp      change auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so to
auth sufficient /lib/security/pag_permit.so
2) UNLINK KPPP
        ln -sf /usr/sbin/kppp /usr/bin/kppp     stops KPPP asking for password
3) SUID ROOT
        chmod +s /usr/sbin/kppp         makes KPPP suid

That's it
Marvin