There is a clever little program from Roaring Pengiun that installs a GUI for pppoe on the KDE desktop. In the tray, actually.
It only lets root set it up and install it and once done I cannot use it as a user. I have to open a terminal box sign in as root, run "pppoe-start," and then I can watch the little globe turn green when the connection is made.
I've read what I can find, but can't figure out how to set it up so a user can start and stop pppoe with it.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Change the permissions of the executable or group permissions. I'd imagine it's using other things only root is allowed to access but I've never used RPPP.

I'd just setup sudo access to the command for the users you want to have access to, perhaps make it passwordless even to not be bothered with a password.

You could also try writing a script to run that, chown the script to root, and set the SUID bit on the script.

I gone through and changed the permissons on every file I can find that is related to rppppoe and pppoe and nothing has change. Root is still the only what can use the gui to rppppoe.

Like mentioned before, it's not just rpppoe, it most likely uses devices and other files that only root has access to. You're probably better off setting up sudo for the program to the users you want to have access to instead of changing permissions on files that might hinder functionality of the program, etc.

Well, I finally found my way to their web site and dug around and if you want to run pppoe-start as a user, that is what you have to do, i.e., set up a /etc/sudoers file.
This really completely defeats the purpose of having their little RPPPPoEK .40 utility.
Regardless, I cut and pasted their example to the /etc/sudoers file, but I can't get it to work. It says it has to be edit with visudo, so I tried that. Still doesn't work. I read the MAN on visudo and don't see where it says how to save and exit once you have finished your editing.
When I run any of the commands from the file I get the same error, i.e., "syntax error. line 34. Parse error in etc/sudoers near line 34.

Here is my /etc/sudoers file:
# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# Defaults specification

# Runas alias specification

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

# Samples
%users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom,/sbin/mount /dvd,/sbin/umount /dvd
%users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom2,/sbhin/umount /cdrom2
%users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
%users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -r now

# Allow members of the group "dialout" to connect to the internet:
%dialout ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pppoe-start, /usr/sbin/pppoe-stop
%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pppoe-start, /usr/sbin/pppoe-stop

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.