Re: KPPP Problems

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>>That is odd thing.. nothing happens at all.  I log into KDE and when 
I
>>choose KPPP, it prompts me for the Root Password, I type that in and 
nothing
>>happens.  It just sits there.  No Windows or anything.  Very 
strange.
>>>>it is funny also, b/c I am able use the Red Hat PPP Dialer as an 
alternate
>>choice.  I just want this fixed b/c this is what I using in the 
past.
>I noticed after upgrading a co-worker's box from RH 6.1 to 6.2
>kppp had problems (he uses kppp, I don't).
>He was complaining about it asking for the root password, so I
>changed the PAM config so anyone could run kppp without entering
>the root password.  After a couple of tried that even worked!  :)
>That was all fine except he lost all of his previous settings.
>He had to reenter all his phone numbers, DNS numbers, scripts, etc.
>When I tried to help move the stuff over I found that it stores
>everything in root's home directory instead of his userid's!!!
>(probably something to do with the SUID setup of kppp)
>I don't know if I caused that problem by goofing around with PAM,
>or if it works that way stock RH 6.2.
>It seems like this would be a major problem on a multi-user system,

I suspect things like KPPP are problems on multi-user systems from the 
get go,  I mean how do you let more than one person control whether a 
modem is up or down.  One person could hang it up while someone else 
is still using it.  One of my beefs with KDE-isms is that they seem to 
assume "too much" of the PC ideology.  The only really corrent 
solution to modem dialage (IMHO) is automated demand dial.

> but since he's the only user on that box, I just left it as is, and
> he reentered all of his ISP info and we let it be stored under the
> /root/.kde/.... subdirectory structure.  Weird . . .

So even after adjusting PAM is it writing to /root?  Did it write to 
/home/x before?  I'd be interested to see the PAM file.