kppp or the other dialer

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

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
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