HedHat 6.2

[The Wolf]

I have not had the chance to play with the newest RH 6.2 but if you
have installed the pppd and it still gives to the same error it is 
because you pppd's premissions are set so only the root can execute it.
The best way is to run it when you need it as root or set the SUID

cd <directory you have pppd installed - /usr/sbin/>
chmod 4755 pppd

Setting SUID is convinient way of executing a lot of 
admin programs however you should be aware this
premission setting also carries a security concerns.

The Wolf


Clayton Stapleton wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Have installed RedHat 6.2 on a Pentium 450Mh with 128MB of RAM. It will
> not recognize the "fdisk" command either as user or root, does anyone
> know
> why?
> The next problem is with KDE's Kppp. When selecting Kppp from the list
> it just shows a box asking for root password and when it is entered the
> box
> disappears and nothing happens. Any help would be appreciated.
> The third problem is when typing "kppp" from the CLI there is an error
> message "pppd is not properly installed" "The pppd binary must be
> installed
> with the SUID bit set. Contact your system administrator." How does one
> set the SUID bit?
> Trying to get this working so that I can try KMail.
> TIA
> Clay Stapleton
> 
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