Getting around needing superuser privelidges

Bigun · 09-14-2002, 10:12 AM

Ok, I have completely soaked in the concept of chown and chmod and how to use them. With my newfound knowledge I have the same problem. But now I can go into more detail.

When I connect to the internet I have to run Network Configuration, this asks for a root password. The program that runs it is called "neat". I went and ran "ls -l neat" and come to find it has "lrwxrwxrwx root root" linking to consolehelper. I've tried changing it to "root.Bigun", but it still asks for root password. Ideas?

Mara · 09-14-2002, 03:04 PM

I suppose it runs a program (like pppd for modem connections) that requires to work as root.

Bigun · 09-14-2002, 03:43 PM

That's the thing though, it specifically asks for the root password to run "neat", not "pppd".

therizwaan · 09-15-2002, 03:14 AM

set suid to ppp/pppd and do a 'ln -sf /usr/sbin/kppp (or where actual kppp is located) to /usr/bin/kppp (also try suid here). You'll be able to connect without root password and root's kppprc file.

Bigun · 09-15-2002, 04:18 PM

I use Gnome..not KDE though.....modifying kppp won't do any good.