On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Jeffrey Yep wrote:
> It seems that whenever I try to run Kppp as another user besides root it
> gives me the msg. that pppd was not installed with SUID permisions and it
> asks me to install it again. Because of which it doesn't dial and it can't
> create a modem lock file. So what do I do? Do I just upgrade it from the RH
> CD?
No.
Run
chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
which makes pppd suid.
If you have the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0, edit it
and change USERCTL=no" to USERCTL="yes".
Atul
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