On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:53:26PM +0400, Igor Anikeev wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an ongoing problem with kppp whicj I use todial to the Internet. > It always requires the root pass word. Can it be overcome? > > Or better yet,is there an alternative in gnome for just the same thing? > > igor Well wvdialer is the program on gnome that does the same thing. But if you want kppp to work as a normal user I call it as /usr/bin/kppp, rather than /usr/sbin/kppp. In the past I have made kppp ans well as pppd SUID root, but probably it would be enough to put in your ifcfg-ppp0 the line USERCTL=yes -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
