On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Frederick Noronha wrote:

> Any idea why KPPP asks for root password everytime I try to dial up? Am I
> doing something wrong? FN

To dial up, you need read/write access to /dev/ttyS? - only root has 
that.  kppp runs through the userhelper wrapper script that does a 
setuid root.

Check in /etc/pam.d/kppp and /etc/security/console.apps/kppp

show us the contents of both these files.

Philip

-- 
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