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Adding Users to Dialup(Kppp) in KDE

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by b_benyard 1 view

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I've loaded KDE on my Laptop PC, under Red Hat v6.2 Can't dial out to my ISP as a user only as Root. any ideas ?? When I use Gnome no problems

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by Former member

You need either to assign a special group (normally a group named "modem" or "tty" is present in your system) that can use tty port.

If you use kppp you may need to allow to write /etc/resolv, but I prefer to don't allow kppp do add dinamically DNS and use a private DNS with well-known reliable forwarders.

Other tecniques to allow non-root user to dial out is trough the use of suid (kppp run as root even when started from non-root) but i dislike this method.

by gregory pleau

If you are the only user of the computer, just SUID the program -

chmod u+s kppp

That'll take care of it

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