On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 7:29 pm, PBone wrote: > I used to run kppp as a user to access my dial-up modem without any > problems. After installing a LAN card I found that I when I ran kppp as > user the connection would be made but the browser and email would not work. > Mandrake control centre insisted that I was not connected to the internet. > I worked around the problem by creating a new profile and using Mandrake > control centre to access the internet. The only problem now is that kppp > runs as root. > 1. Is this a security problem > 2. How can I go back to using kppp as user?
I cannot tell you how to run kpp as a user. But I can tell you how to run the Mandrake Dialler net_monitor as a user as described here. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/dialup.html derek
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