Kppp

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:49:26PM -0400, Howard Gibson wrote:
>    Does anybody know how to run Kppp from Red Hat and from Fedora without giving up root's password.  I have already tried writing a C program with the root's user ID bit turned on, and Red Hat intercepted that.  
> 
>    Red Hat is doing such a good job of protecting me from the user ID bit that I have to give up root's password.

Well redhat used to have a nice netuser or something command that was
setuid that any user (or users in a certain group) could run that would
dial the connection for you, assuming it was configured using redhat's
netconf or whatever utility for setting up dialup and other networking.

I always highly recomend NOT using kppp.  It has often in the past given
errors when there was nothing wrong (other than with the people who
wrote kppp and their code perhaps).  It's yet another thing that the
distribution handles already in a non graphical/desktop dependant
manner, than a desktop environment has no business being involved in.
If kde wants to do something useful, they could make a nice little gui
dialer that uses the underlying distributions method of dialing.  on
debian they would be using pon/poff to control the dial up link.

Lennart Sorensen
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