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
> >
> 
> 
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