On 20-Sep-2000 Archie Benton spoke something to the effect:
> Regarding my problem with kppp, I try running kppp and it tells me
> something is wrong with my kppprc file and that I need to chown that
> file to fix it. Well, I chown away (as root) and nothing happens. As for
> re-establishing the settings for kppp, I can't get into the dialog boxes
> that allow me to. I see the box but nothing on the box is selectable and
> the box isn't functional. I will try the suggestion to reinstall the
> kde-network. I also believe that it may be some strange interaction with
> my sound card. I have an Asus P5A board with integrated audio. I have
> never worried about the fact that the sound card didn't work since I
> really don't listen to sound when I am using my computer. I asked the
> redhat folks about this and it doesn't seem like the ESS based system on
> the Asus mother board is supported. Thanks for the suggestions so far!
It might mean that the kpp file itself needs to be chown'd or suid'd. I
doubt it has anything to do with your soundcard, unless it's one of those
weirdos that share an IRQ with the modem. In that case, I'm suprised if
your modem works, period.
Anyway, I can't seem to locate it now and it may have actually been on an
earlier version of RH. But, I found that kppp was actually a link to
something else. I had to set uid the real file in order to allow a user to
do anything. Otherwise, root would need to set the dialer up and then
kppp wouldrequire the root password to run. Once I fixed the real file, any
user could run it, set it up and change things (only as relates to that
user's setup - he could not change root or any other user settings).
As I say, it's not that way here now. You can locate kppp with:
which kppp
Then see what file to mess with:
ls -l />path>/kppp
If this shows that it is really a link to somethig else, as root:
chmod a+s /<path_to_real_file>/<real_file>
That should allow all users to set up their own dial up parameters and not
affect the settings of the other users.
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