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Ok. I have recently installed RedHat 9 and everything works fine. However kppp dialer can only be invoked by using my root account. If I switch to a regular user account kppp asks me to switch to root.
I've tried playing with permissions but I am not sure what file's permission to change. Should that be of the kppp file so to give access to the regular account ?
before someone posts telling you to modify a bunch of permissions on kppp/ppp/dev/ttysx,and other outdated info, just change one thing. Change the following line in the file /etc/pam.d/kppp from:
auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so
to:
auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_permit.so
Which one worked. I know the one I posted works, cause it worked for me. Or was it the /etc/pam one that worked? Besides, you have to tell us, does it now work for your non root users?
I applied the /pam method and it worked.
So back to the question. Does it mean that the user account has permission to use kppp or any other regular account too?
Ok the Kppp works using a regular account.
However when using a regular acccount the modem is not detected. gggrrrr....even though it is detected when using the root account. Any help ?
I got it working though. The problem was that I the modem is not automatically loaded upon startup. Therefore I have to load it first as root and then use it in other accounts.
I guess I should look into scripts to load the modem automaticaly on startup.
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