Ayman Nour El DIn wrote:
> i can use Kppp withing the root account just fine
> but whenver i try to start it in any other user account it just gives me a
> message that says pppd not installed,,,check ur system administrator,,,,
> what do u think that is?!!!1
Maybe because pppd isn't in your path, but not likely.
Check the permissions on /usr/sbin/pppd and /usr/sbin/kppp
(that is, "ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd /usr/sbin/kppp")
One or the other needs to be SUID, and neither is by default (AFAIK).
If you want users to be able to control dial up, try:
chmod u+x /usr/sbin/kppp
After that, kppp will always run with root permission, regardless of who
launches it.
> and why is it that whenever i try to run the irc client under root i get
> this message saying running irc as root is stupid?!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know. I don't use IRC much, but most IRC servers won't even let
you connect as root.
You really should restrict use of the root account to administration.
You said that you have a user on your linux box, use that when you
aren't configuring something.
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