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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#22149: kppp permissions problem
From:       Harri Porten <harri () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2001-04-10 20:46:30
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Sangohn Christian wrote:
> 
> On Friday 06 April 2001 02:46, you wrote:
> > > According to the online help, kppp should without the suid bit for users
> > > if they belong to a group kppp belongs to. This is what I tried to do:
> > >
> > > xtian@sikasso:~$ ls -l /usr/sbin/pp*
> > > -rwxr-x---    1 root     dip        207836 Aug  7  2000 /usr/sbin/pppd*
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     dip         38076 Aug  7  2000
> > > /usr/sbin/pppdump* -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     dip         10848 Aug  7
> > > 2000 /usr/sbin/pppstats* xtian@sikasso:~$ ls -l
> > > /opt/K-Desktop-Environment-2.1/bin/kpp*
> > > -rwsr-x---    1 root     dialout   3843912 Mär 11 12:23 xtian@sikasso:~$
> > > ls -l /opt/K-Desktop-Environment-2.1/bin/kpp* -rwsr-x---    1 root
> > > dialout   3843912 Mär 11 12:23 /opt/K-Desktop-Environment-2.1/bin/kppp*
> > > -rwxr-x---    1 root     dialout    717881 Mär 11 12:20
> > > /opt/K-Desktop-Environment-2.1/bin/kppplogview*
> > >
> > > And this is an excerpt from my /etc/group:
> > > dip:*:30:dialout
> > > dialout:*:20:xtian
> > >
> > > As you can see, the dialout group belongs to the dip group and I (user
> > > xtian) belong to the dialout group. But kppp complains that the suid bit
> > > should be set to work for users. Why?
> >
> > pppd refuses to work unless it's called by root or is setuid root. Issue
> > a
> >
> > chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
> >
> > and try again. Does it work now ?
> No it doesn´t. Kppp complains that it can´t open a logfile.

The give it access to your /var/log/messages (via group permissions or
whatever) or look up the error in that file manually.

Harri.

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