On Friday 02 July 2004 04:00 pm, Igor Anikeev wrote: > Jonathan Rawle wrote: > >This is Fedora being over-cautious. According to the manual, you can > > safely run kppp SUID root (of course, you know your situation better than > > I - is your machine single user, etc...) > > > >So you can do > > > >chmod u+s /usr/sbin/kppp > > > >then run /usr/sbin/kppp directly (to avoid running consolehelper, which > > asks for the root password). > > Tried it, but it doesn't help any :( > > Igor Igor: I found the following at the KDE site, and it works for me: As root: rm /usr/bin/kppp chmod u+s /usr/sbin/kppp ln -s /usr/sbin/kppp /usr/bin/kppp -- cmg
