From kde-devel  Sun Oct 31 19:44:09 1999
From: Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:44:09 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: kppp with latest kernel
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=94139904925909

Andreas Schlapbach wrote:
> 
> A week ago I patched from 2.2.12 to 2.2.13. Since then, invoking kppp
> shows the error message which usally pops up when ppp-support is missing
> in the kernel. But this is wrong (otherwise, how could I send this
> mail?)
> 
> Anybody having a hint what is going on?

A security hole got fixed. Edit kppp/runtests.cpp and disable the
ppp_available() test by inserting a "return true" at the beginning.

Harri.