Trying to launch 'Internet Dial-Up Tool' (kppp) from the Internet menu in F13 RC2 KDE live spin gives an error: "You do not have sufficient permission to run: /usr/sbin/pppd . Please make sure that kppp is owned by root and has the SUID bit set.' This is a failure of the 'desktop menus' validation test: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_desktop_menus . As we don't consider the desktop validation tests to be release blocking for anything but the default desktop in F13, not nominating this as a release blocker, but obviously can be fixed with updates, and for future releases we'd hope to be able to consider this kind of thing release blocking. I suppose we may want to revisit this if we end up delaying final release, if there are internet connection cases not covered by knetworkmanager and there's no obvious workaround?
just noticed, after you close the error dialog, kppp does proceed to run. I can't test if it actually works, though.
Workaround is Alt+F2 kdesu kppp ENTER. The proper fix is to change the menu entry to run kppp under kdesu.
since we've slipped F13 final you may be able to sneak a fix for this into final if you like...have to ask oxf13 if he'd take it. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
I'm looking into it.
Actually, Than is going to set this up using consolehelper.
Aren't we suppposed to be moving to PolicyKit instead of consolehelper?
Uhm yeah, KPPP is supposed to use KAuth/PolicyKit in the long run. But we need a quick fix now. The way upstream handles this is that they make the kppp binary SUID, fork a child process, drop privileges in the GUI part by setting the UID back to the invoking UID and keep the privileges in the child process. The nice thing about that approach is that it doesn't require running the GUI as root (as is the case when we use consolehelper or kdesu), but the big problem is that it allows dialing out with no root password. The RH security team didn't like that, nor the unaudited custom privilege dropping handling, so they asked us not to make kppp SUID. We had this set up using consolehelper in KDE 3, but it got dropped at some point, I think with the migration to KDE 4. Of course, the proper solution is to use KAuth (which uses PolicyKit, but it's also portable to other operating systems or distributions which use different mechanisms). That way we get the GUI process not running as root, authorization required by default and the possibility for the admin to give out permanent authorization to a user all at the same time. But that takes more than a quick fix.
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