Bug 146332

Summary:	kppp needs root privileges
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Hartmut Buhrmester <hartmut.buhrmester>
Component:	KDE	Assignee:	E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Hartmut Buhrmester 2006-01-27 20:37:52 UTC

kppp 3.4.2-11 needs root privileges

Recently I tried WindowMaker as a lightweight desktop. Since the KDE applet kinternet doesn't work with this desktop, I installed kppp instead.

But when I tried to connect with kppp, I encountered the error "kppp needs root privileges to connect to pppd". I set the "saved user-ID" flag for kppp, and then it would dial up to my provider.

Comment 1 Dirk Mueller 2006-01-27 21:32:50 UTC

did you login via kdm/gdm or via console (init 3 ; startx) ?

which device do you use for dialup? is resmgr running? did it set permissions correctly (getfacl /dev/XXX)? Do you run DEV_ON_TMPFS=yes ?

Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2006-01-28 08:34:06 UTC

kppp really needs root permissions and you need to give it the binary. kppp is not supported by SUSE, which is also the reason we do not give it root access by default.

We were thinking about removing kppp from the distribution, but many like it, so it's on. But with all bugs in it you are on your own - as there is also about no upstream maintaince.