lrhogusa
07-14-2003, 01:01 AM
If you like using your RH desktop kppp to dialup but are tired of putting in root's password then do the following so that you as a user can run kppp without the root password.
Below is two different things you could do.
1. Do this as root so all users can run kppp:
rm /usr/bin/kppp
ln -s /usr/sbin/kppp /usr/bin/kppp
chmod ugo+s /usr/sbin/kppp
What that does is remove the user kppp link to "enter root password" gui. Next you make a link to root's kppp command in /usr/sbin. Then you make /usr/sbin/kppp executable for everyone.
2. Fiddle with /usr/sbin/kppp's group to have selected users:
You could make a kppp group and add selected users to
it then just do this command only as root.
chown root.kppp /usr/sbin/kppp
Below is two different things you could do.
1. Do this as root so all users can run kppp:
rm /usr/bin/kppp
ln -s /usr/sbin/kppp /usr/bin/kppp
chmod ugo+s /usr/sbin/kppp
What that does is remove the user kppp link to "enter root password" gui. Next you make a link to root's kppp command in /usr/sbin. Then you make /usr/sbin/kppp executable for everyone.
2. Fiddle with /usr/sbin/kppp's group to have selected users:
You could make a kppp group and add selected users to
it then just do this command only as root.
chown root.kppp /usr/sbin/kppp