group permissions

[alfredo]

I want to give permission to a group to use kppp How would I set that. What is the command. I don't want to give out my root password to them, I want them to use the group password.

Tks

[knute]

You would need to set up kppp so that it is owned by the group 'dialout' for instance...
Then you need to set the permissions kppp to something like 'chmod 550 kppp' that will allow kppp and anyone in its group to read and execute, but not write to that file...

Then whoever is granted access needs to go into the group dialout....

It is a fairly simple process to set up...

Good luck...

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[alfredo]

I did that but I get an error message saying there in no such file or directory.

[fmt]

http://devel-home.kde.org/~kppp/faq.html
says to:

<B>Open a terminal window, su to root and enter the following commands:

rm /usr/bin/kppp
chmod u+s /usr/sbin/kppp
ln -s /usr/sbin/kppp /usr/bin/kppp

Please refer to the Handbook for the security aspect of this setup.
</B> http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif works great for me.

[alfredo]

Thanks. When I saw the "rm" I was taken back. Thanks for posting the link, too. It reminded me that there is a faq at KDE.