Re: Using kppp as normal user
From: Aaron Konstam (akonstam_at_trinity.edu)
Date: 04/01/04
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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:13:45 -0600 To: pbhat@ongc.net, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:52:09AM +0530, Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
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> >Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:34:50 +0200
> >From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@uni-bielefeld.de>
> >Subject: Re: Thread Hijacking - Digest 1451
> >To: pbhat@ongc.net, For users of Fedora Core releases
> <fedora-list@redhat.com>
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> >>Am Mo, den 29.03.2004 schrieb Parameshwara Bhat um 20:31:
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> >Suggestion well-taken.Using old Digest is a habit from Opera mailing
> >List where submision is not accepted otherwise.
>
> >We all are in a fluent learning process.
>
> >Thank you.By the by,do you have any idea on the subject : "Howto use
> >kppp as normal user?"
>
> >I never used kppp. So I only can guess. The documentation
> >/usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.42.2/sysconfig.txt know the option
> >USERCTL=yes. Maybe that is usable for kppp too and allows normal users
> >to set up and down the device.
>
> Even somebody else suggested that.But to use that my system should have
> a file like ifcfg-kppp under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ which it
> doesn't have.
> >>
> >>Alexander
>
> Thank you,
>
> Parameshwara Bhat
Using kppp as an ordinary user is straight forward if you execute
/usr/sbin/kppp and
not /usr/bin/kppp. Also set pppd suid root.
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