Bug 11734 - KPPP can't start if user is not root
Summary: KPPP can't start if user is not root
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kdenetwork
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-05-29 17:15 UTC by Alen Rusin
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-07-03 09:13:03 UTC
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Description Alen Rusin 2000-05-29 17:15:12 UTC 
I'm using Red Hat Linux 6.2 and KDE. I installed KPPP and it's running
without problems when I'm logged in as root. However, when I log under any
other username and run KPPP, I get prompt to enter root password. Whatever
I do, enter this password or not, nothing happens: I can't get Connect
dialog, and I'm not getting any error message.

Why it's happening? What I have to do to enable ppp access to ordinary
users and to avoid root password entering at the beginning?
Comment 1 Alen Rusin 2000-05-30 14:21:59 UTC 
May 30, 2000
I managed to invoke kppp by changing /etc/security/console.apps/kppp text file.
I changed this line:

session=false

to true and after that non-root users was able to get input for root password.
To get rid of input dialog you should try

rm /usr/bin/kppp
chmod u+s /usr/sbin/kppp
ln -s /usr/sbin/kppp usr/bin/kppp

Alen
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-07-03 09:13:01 UTC 
Reassigning to kdenetwork component.
Comment 3 Ngo Than 2000-09-15 13:38:14 UTC 
It's fixed in Red Hat 7.0
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