fedora-list Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1394
Parameshwara Bhat
pbhat at ongc.net
Sun Mar 28 09:50:45 UTC 2004
Hello Friends,
I recently posted a mail asking if anybody could guide me as to how to
share 'kppp' in fedora core1 with non-root users.It is a home PC shared by
members of the family.I would not share root password for fear of ignorant
actions affecting security/stability of system.Presently any non-root user
has to supply root password to connect(dial up ) to ISP.
I have done a few things as suggested in kppp manual about including all
users of kppp with root in a group like 'dialout' and assigning ownership
of kppp to that group. Also I have SUIDed /usr/sbin/kppp and edit
/etc/pam.d/kppp to comment out a line.Nothing has worked.
Are there any more ideas on what could be or what should be done ?
Coming from MSWindows environement,I would think security being so tight
as not allow non-root users of desktop an internet connection very crazy.
I chose Power Desktop Installation and a decent user-oriented installation
should have set this automatically . Is Linux not to be used on desktops
and by layman users?
Parameshwara Bhat
On Mon, 26 Mar 2004 22:06:01 -0500 (EST), <fedora-list-request at redhat.com>
wrote:
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