I think the correct answer in gentoo is to put the user in the uucp and dialup groups, thats certainly the instructions for wvdial
. On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:45:50 +1200 (NZST) Steve Holdoway wrote: > You can force the kppp process to run as root in the following manner... > > chown root `which kppp` > chmod 4755 `which kppp` > > This sets the 'setuid' bit on the process, which forces it to run as if it > were whoever is its owner. Not being a gentoo or kppp user, I don't know > whether his will help you, though (: > > Steve > > On Thu, April 14, 2005 11:24 pm, howardblomfield said: > > i have had one or two probs with the above, & think it had to do with > > copying roberts make file & not changing the cflags from pentium to > > athlon-xp when compiling in ppp. although i can dial up it requires > > logging in as root from a terminal to start kppp. a bit of reading on > > gentoo forums throws up a few topics relating to chmod but my few > > attempts haven't resulted in any success. as far as sound is concerned > > lspci shows the following for the sound card > > > > 0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 > > AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1) > > > > and lsmod shows > > > > snd_seq 50768 0 > > snd_seq_device 6988 1 snd_seq > > snd_pcm_oss 48288 0 > > snd_mixer_oss 17664 1 snd_pcm_oss > > snd_intel8x0 28800 0 > > snd_ac97_codec 73848 1 snd_intel8x0 > > snd_pcm 83528 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec > > snd_timer 21700 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm > > snd 46820 8 > > snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer > > soundcore 7648 1 snd > > snd_page_alloc 7620 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm > > > > thanks in advance for any pointers, > > howard > > > > > -- > Windows: Where do you want to go today? > MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? > Linux: Are you coming or what? -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
