Jim Clark wrote:
>
> On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> > Anyone know how to get rid of the "please enter root password"
> > when I fire up kppp in KDE?
>
> chmod 4755 `which kppp`
# chmod 4755 /usr/bin/kppp
# ls -la /usr/bin/kppp /usr/bin/consolehelper
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 17780 Sep 22 10:10 /usr/bin/consolehelper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 23 06:42 /usr/bin/kppp -> consolehelper
Setuid didn't help - it still wants a password :-(
I am not running X as root though.
It's a pain, but I can live with it ;-0
-rickw
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