Re: [LI] kppp and root password

[Rajesh Fowkar <rfowkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Binand,

If I do as you said then KPP does not ask for the root password but it gives
some other error which is as follows :

This kernel has no ppp support, neither compiled in nor via the kernel module
loader. To solve this problem contact your system administrator or install a
kernel with ppp support.

Now I have reverted back to my earlier state.

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> Hi Rajesh,
> 
> I have solved your problem (I think).
> 
> consolehelper is a program that, looking at the name by which it was
> invoked, asks you for the root password and then runs the specified
> program. So you can solve your problem by removing /usr/bin/kppp and
> running /usr/sbin/kppp instead (of course, this has to be suid root).
> 
> Read consolehelper(8) for more details.
> 
> <smileys>
> If this works, I expect a Thank You mail from you, as I had to install
> RHL 6.1 to figure this out.
> </smileys>
> 
> Binand
> 

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