On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 12:27:03AM -0400, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > 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 You can do the ln but that destroys the KDE system for invoking kppp. If you want to execute /usr/sbin/kppp just execute it. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
