Running KPPP as a user, and not root.

RoaCh Of DisCor · 06-19-2004, 04:28 PM

How would I go about doing this? I know this is doable...I'm just not sure what I need to do.

I of course can type in my root password, and run kppp...but how can I make it so I can run it as my user...without needing root permissions.

Thanks

-RoaCh

mugstar · 06-19-2004, 04:45 PM

Which distro are you using? Mandrake, SuSE at al have GUI tools to manage groups. Find it, run it (as root) and add yourself to the group called 'dialout' or 'kppp-users' or whatever looks logical.

Or, manually create a group called, say, modemUsers; change ownership of the kpp binary to root:modemUsers; add yourself to the modemUsers group.

RoaCh Of DisCor · 06-19-2004, 05:19 PM

Wow! Worked right off.

All I did was create the group...and changed the ownership of /usr/sbin/kppp and /usr/sbin/pppd and it worked

Thanks.

wlaw · 06-27-2004, 12:26 PM

It's strange that I followed the instructions and successed. Howevre, the next time I login, it's still the same that no one could access KPPP except root !

Why ?

I've created a user group called kpppuser and add two accounts to it !

I changed the group ownership of kppp and pppd to kpppuser. Is it correct ?

RoaCh Of DisCor · 06-27-2004, 04:03 PM

Are you running the /usr/bin/kppp or /usr/sbin/kppp

Anyway, what I did afterwords is deleted kppp out from the /usr/bin directory, and then coppied the /usr/sbin/kppp to /usr/bin

wlaw · 06-28-2004, 05:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by RoaCh Of DisCor
Are you running the /usr/bin/kppp or /usr/sbin/kppp

Anyway, what I did afterwords is deleted kppp out from the /usr/bin directory, and then coppied the /usr/sbin/kppp to /usr/bin

How could I know if I am running /usr/bin/kppp or /usr/sbin/kppp ?

I get the following in my /usr/bin

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 6¤ë 17 04:20 kppp -> consolehelper

Thank you !

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