Steve,
I got in contact with one of the two developers maintaining kppp (Harri
Porten) and he gave me the following response:
"Delete the symbolic link /usr/bin/kppp, give the real binary suid root
permissions (chmod u+s /usr/sbin/kppp and call this one directly. If
/usr/sbin is not in your path you could create a symbolic link (ln -s
/usr/sbin/kppp /usr/bin/kppp)."
AFAICS, you need to make /usr/sbin/kppp suid and you should be up and
running.
Works fine for me.
Gustav
Steve Cohen wrote:
>
> Damn.
> I'm trying to set up a personal system to use kde and kppp. kppp is
> easily set up for root but for ordinary users?
> RedHat seems to have gone out of its way to make this impossible!
> I previously used Mandrake 6.0 and kppp was
> the only modem solution I could get to work reliably for me. Now I've
> "upgraded" back to Redhat 6.1 (I decided Mandrake was a little too
> unreliable) and what a mess!
>
> For root, kppp in the default setup maps to /usr/sbin/kppp. However,
> for non-root users the system finds
> /usr/bin/kppp which is a symbolic link to something called
> /usr/bin/consolehelper which demands to know the root password. No
> thanks, I don't want to have to type in the root password just to start
> kppp.
>
> There is all sorts of documentation provided by the KDE folks for
> getting kppp to work - unfortunately, none of it applies to the
> configuration Redhat has saddled us with.
>
> So I decided that the easiest thing to do would be to make a new
> /usr/bin/kppp that is a symbolic link directly to
> /usr/sbin/kppp. This works, sort of but when I try to invoke it, it
> tells me that it can't find the interface ppp0.
> I'm stymied here. I have got the system set up to allow non-root users
> to access my ppp0 interface. And Gnome/RP3
> have no trouble finding ppp0.
>
> So 2 questions
> 1. What gives? It seems like Redhat has gone out of its way to make
> kppp hard to use? (Where have I heard that one before?)
> 2. What is a workaround for this?
>
> By the way, I really don't mind Gnome either (although this is the first
> I've used it.) But one thing I really can't stand is that the when you
> invoke the Gnome terminal program you have to then click into it instead
> of its being given keyboard focus (like every other gui app). Is there
> a workaround for this bug?
>
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