There's a better solution I just thought of. I don't know enough about PAM to help you though. Set up your pam configuration the same way that your sound card is set up - so that whoever is logged into your box has the authority to access the serial port device node (whatever /dev/modem is symlinked to - /dev/ ttySx) associated with your modem. Maybe Red Hat has a wizard designed just for this? Could someone with PAM experience respond? On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 22:56 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Hi. Ditch use of kppp and use wvdial - you can use a suid perl script to > launch wvdial on demand, or you can start wvdial from /etc/rc.local (in > which case it will dial when you boot) > > Whenever I use dialup - I just start wvdial at system boot - but if your > phone line isn't dedicated, then an suid root script to call wvdial is > needed (I suppose you could just suid root the wvdial binary too) > > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 12:22 +0530, Parameshwara Bhat wrote: > > Hello Friends, > > > > I recently posted a mail asking if anybody could guide me as to how to > > share 'kppp' in fedora core1 with non-root users.It is a home PC shared by > > members of the family.I would not share root password for fear of ignorant > > actions affecting security/stability of system.Presently any non-root user > > has to supply root password to connect(dial up ) to ISP. > > > > I have followed all actions suggested by Scott Burns and Stone Beat but > > that has not solved the isuue.Basically what I did was to SUID on > > /usr/sbin/kppp and edit /etc/pam.d/kppp to comment out a line.Nothing has > > worked. > > > > Are there any more ideas on what could be or what should be done ? > > > > Coming from MSWindows environement,I would think security being so tight > > as not allow non-root users of desktop an internet connection very crazy. > > I chose Power Desktop Installation and a decent user-oriented installation > > should have set this automatically . Is Linux not to be used on desktops > > and layman users? > > > > Parameshwara Bhat > > > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2004 22:06:01 -0500 (EST), <fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
