kppp or the other dialer

[Jonathan Rawle]

Igor Anikeev wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have an ongoing problem with kppp whicj I use todial to the Internet.
> It always requires the root pass word.  Can it be overcome?

This is Fedora being over-cautious. According to the manual, you can safely
run kppp SUID root (of course, you know your situation better than I - is
your machine single user, etc...)

So you can do

chmod u+s /usr/sbin/kppp

then run /usr/sbin/kppp directly (to avoid running consolehelper, which asks
for the root password).

Jonathan