kppp or the other dialer

[Carroll Grigsby]

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