Thanks, on another newsgroup I found a link to a webpage which basically describes what you said. When I did though I could not see the connection I'd setup as root. I set it up again and it was fine. I occured to me afterwards that maybe I should have copied my /root/.kppprc to my home directory or something like that. NH ---------- >From: Clare Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: kppp >Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2000, 6:07 am > >Neil, > >kppp is asking for the root password. You can either supply the root >password to make your connection or do the following :- > > >1. Delete /usr/bin/kppp >2. give the real binary suid root permissions :- chmod u+s >/usr/sbin/kppp >3. Create a symbolic link :- ln -s /usr/sbin/kppp /usr/bin/kppp > >HTH, >Clare > > >Neil Hollow wrote: >> >> I've got my kppp internet connection up and running as root but cannot get >> it to run as a user. If I click on kppp in the menu a password window >> appears but entering a password has no effect. I tried "chmod a+r >> /usr/sbin/kppp" w/o effect. Where am I going wrong? Is it pppd that >> causing the problems or what. >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" >> as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
