Bug 11503

Summary:	kppp is a soft link in /usr/bin/consolehelper
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Elias Athanasopoulos <eatha>
Component:	kdenetwork	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Description Elias Athanasopoulos 2000-05-18 14:27:09 UTC

kppp exists in two places:
- /usr/sbin/kppp (elf)
- /usr/bin/kppp  (soft link -> /usr/bin/consolehelper)

A similar situation involves the kpackage program.

I had to copy the elf kppp to /usr/bin and make it suid root in
order to be able to connect as an ordinary user.

Comment 1 Elias Athanasopoulos 2000-05-26 15:18:59 UTC

The installation mode was custom with KDE Desktop. I installed only the core
and development libraries for GNOME.

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-06-17 21:36:57 UTC

It's not a bug, it's a feature.
consolehelper is a wrapper program that lets ordinary users start programs as
root under certain circumstances.
setuid programs are always security problems.