Re: KPPP Problems

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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,
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 . . .

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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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