This is about a bug in the kdenetwork package, which is on your rawhide ftp site but not listed on your rawhide bugzilla. This discrepancy is also a bug, I suppose. I have chosen "pam" because it was the closest package listed related to the bug. My apologies to any needlessly bothered pam developers. kppp is configured with pam to run as root. + kppp can run user specified programs on connect, etc. ------------------------------------------------------ BAD -- tell it to run xterm on connect -> root shell note: running kppp as root also causes it to run with root kde configuration and colors, which is durn ugly if root has different color preferences than the current user. Consider running it as group uucp or some such.
The default setup for kppp is to use consolehelper to require the root password. If you have that, the fact that you can run xterm is not really relevant.