fedora-list Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1394

[Patrice Brockhaus]

Am Freitag, 26. März 2004 14:39 schrieb Jeff Vian:
> Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> > 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 followed all actions suggested by Scott Burns and Stone Beat
> > but that has not solved the isuue.Basically what I did was to SUID on
> > /usr/sbin/kppp and edit /etc/pam.d/kppp to comment out a line.Nothing
> > has worked.

Just make /usr/sbin/kpp executable for everyone - or for a "dialout"-group and 
become a member of it.

Then type:
ln -sf /usr/sbin/kppp kppp

As the link in /usr/bin originaly points to /usr/bin/consolehelper which makes 
kppp use pam authentification.
All this you have to do as root, of course.

Ciao,
Patrice