[wplug] Setting kppp up for all users

Brian Medley bpmedley at 4321.tv
Fri Oct 18 21:11:59 EDT 2002


On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:04:42PM -0400, Procario, Michael wrote:

> A second kppp question. I have Redhat 7.3 and it requires a root password
> to run. I thought I could set it suid root, but it is actually a link to
> consolehelper which is using PAM to do the authentication. Is their a
> correct way to get PAM to not require the root password on kppp. I would
> rather have people have access to my modem than have my root pasword. 

You might be able to setup sudo to allow them unrestricted access to kppp.

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