Dear Tony:
My local Linux guru, a Slackware enthusiast, suggested a completely
different solution to the problem: Slackware 9.1 creates a separate kppp
account for each user (which of course can be accessed without knowledge
of the root password), and although its "shutdown" command must be run
from root, any user can reboot cleanly by ctrl+alt+del.
Thanks again for your help.
Ron J
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Tony Wasson wrote:
> Ronald Jacobowitz wrote:
> > In Red Hat 7.3, a user trying to launch a ppp connection is first asked
> > to enter the root password.
> >
> > Is it possible to configure the connection (or create a new one) so as
> > not to require this password?
> >
>
> It is possible to do something like this using "setuid root".
>
> First, find the path to your pppd binary.
> find, locate or whereis may help. Default path is /usr/sbin/pppd
>
> Next, use chmod to turn on setuid root.
> #chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
>
> Finally, verify permissions (and groups) on your pppd binary
> #ls -lsa /usr/sbin/pppd
> 228 -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 230604 DATE /usr/sbin/pppd
>
> You may need to add the users who need pppd access to a group. On my
> system, this is the "dip" group. Others use a "ppp" or "dialout" group.
>
> P.S. Alternately you can use "sudo" to grant this kind of access.
>
> Tony Wasson
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