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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: kppp error: SUID bit
From:       Mike Green <linux () saesolved ! com>
Date:       2000-02-21 16:41:15
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Thanks! That did it.  Detailed comments follow:

Michael Soulier wrote:

>         Short answer: man chmod :)

I guess that the "bit" bit could have clued me in to using chmod on
something.  But the "pppd  binary must be installed with" bit would have taken
me down a path that would have been quite different.  Looking at it now it
makes sense.  But I was thinking of having to do some sort of recompilation
with some sort of flag set ...or something.  Also, although I've used chmod a
fair bit, it has always been to do things like chmod 775 <filename>.  I don't
remember seeing the four digit usage.  I'll have to read up on that "bit."

>         Long answer: Setting up network connections isn't something that
> normal users are permitted to do by default,

It's gotta be for SOHO.  People would PAY for packages that would make it easy
for them.

>         Now, this should have been done on installation, so complain to
> the appropriate people that it wasn't,

That must be either Redhat or O'Reilly.  I just used the CD that came with the
book "Learning Redhat Linux."

> Windows is an acceptable interface built on
> a terrible platform. The interface should be the lowest priority when it
> comes to operating systems. I want solid, fast, efficient and reliable
> first.

Well, the fact that I'm using Linux at all, or trying to, means that I agree
with you to a great extent.  My MS Windows systems crash on the average a
couple of times per day.  But usability is really the overall parameter which
will determine the success of the system.  And that includes both reliability
(negative for MS Windows) and ease of use at whatever state of knowledge of
the system you're at (starts out pretty positive for MS Windows gets worse
with more knowledge, starts out pretty negative for Linux  gets better with
more knowledge -- and I think that KDE, and others, are doing a grand job of
making that start more positive.)

Cheers!

Mike
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