kppp used to be installed suid root. Maybe this has been discontinued for
security reasons. Make kppp suid and group dialout (executable by group
dialout) and make ttyS1 and your users members of the group. Make the
configuration file readonly and owned by root. that should work
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Sukrit Mehra wrote:
> Hi electronic sages,
>
> When I log on into my computer as non-root user I have to give root
> password everytime I access kppp and shutdown. How do i avoid this? I
> want that all users should be able to shutdown and dial out but not be
> able to change kpp setup.
> thanks
>
> sukrit
>
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