Harald,
pppd needs to run as root (or suid root) because it needs to access the hardware directly
and do several other operations that require elevated privilege (mostly related to configuring a network interface and setting up the ppp connnection)
for programs that don't need to run with elevated privileges but won't run except as root
you need to look at their permissions
use 'ls -l' see what the permissions and ownership of a file are. you can use 'which' to find the executable
for executables that don't need root privileges to run you can fix their permissions
using 'chmod' (usually chmod go+x filename will be enough to make sure that you
can run something)
for those that do, take a look at 'sudo' since you can configure it so that mortal users can do things like launch ppp connections without giving them all powers.
On Jun 30, 2004, at 12:47 PM, Harald Sundt wrote:
What do I as Root need to do to make apps work when I'm logged on as a
User? It's funny, some apps work, other only work if I command line as SU.
Help a hopeless End User....Thanks�
: )
Note - I can command line SU order them to launch and they will...I suspect an odd permission thing the Manual doesn't really address. Being a single user of my machine I still rather not run as Root for obvious reasons. I think this is the reason my pppd fails in User mode too.
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