Re: KPPP Problems

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >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.

That's true, but it still seems like it should keep individual settings
in the user's home directory.

> > 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.

It wrote it to /home/x in Redhat 6.1.  I don't know where it wrote
the settings on RH 6.2 before I mucked with the PAM file.

I don't remember exactly what I changed in the PAM file, but I can
find out.  It seems like it was a very simple change.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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