Steven,
I recently had the same problem.
I got in contact with one of the two developers maintaining kppp (Harri
Porten) and he gave me the following response:
"Delete the symbolic link /usr/bin/kppp, give the real binary suid root
permissions (chmod u+s /usr/sbin/kppp and call this one directly. If
/usr/sbin is not in your path you could create a symbolic link (ln -s
/usr/sbin/kppp /usr/bin/kppp)."
Works fine for me.
Regards
Gustav
Steven Hildreth wrote:
>
> Hi, so I was helping out in a chat group last night and this fellow
> could not get his users (other than root) to use the modem to use
> KPPD, so the only thing I knew to fix it was to change the ownership
> of the /dev/ttys0 (changed it to nobody:nobody).
>
> I am assuming this is a security pit, and I was wondering the correct
> way of doing this.
>
> I had him try putting the users he wanted to use the dialer in the
> /etc/kppp.allow file, and that did nothing. I also had him use the
> linuxconf (GUI version) and depress the "Allow Any User to
> (de)/Activate" button, again did not work. But the changing of the
> ownership of the /dev/ttys0 did.
>
> Just wondering so I get it right next time.
>
> Regards,
> Steven Hildreth
> Information Technology Manager
> Aprotex Corporation, http://www.aprotex.com
> "Proven Property Protection Since 1952"
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