Bug 146332 - kppp needs root privileges
Summary: kppp needs root privileges
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: KDE (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: i586 SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Major
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Reported: 2006-01-27 20:37 UTC by Hartmut Buhrmester
Modified: 2006-01-28 08:34 UTC (History)
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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.