kppp or the other dialer

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

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.
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