Using kppp as normal user

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:52:09AM +0530, Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
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> >Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:34:50 +0200
> >From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de>
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> >>Am Mo, den 29.03.2004 schrieb Parameshwara Bhat um 20:31:
> 
> >Suggestion well-taken.Using old Digest is a habit from Opera mailing 
> >List where submision is not accepted otherwise.
> 
> >We all are in a fluent learning process.
> 
> >Thank you.By the by,do you have any idea on the subject : "Howto use 
> >kppp as normal user?"
> 
> >I never used kppp. So I only can guess. The documentation
> >/usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.42.2/sysconfig.txt know the option
> >USERCTL=yes. Maybe that is usable for kppp too and allows normal users
> >to set up and down the device.
> 
> Even somebody else suggested that.But to use that my system should have 
> a file like ifcfg-kppp under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ which it 
> doesn't have.
> >>
> >>Alexander
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Parameshwara Bhat
Using kppp as an ordinary user is straight forward if you execute
/usr/sbin/kppp and
not /usr/bin/kppp. Also set pppd suid root.
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