Your message dated Fri, 29 Oct 1999 17:53:17 +0200 (METDST) with message-id and subject line Bug#2216: KPPP always asks for Root Password has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I'm talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Stephan Kulow (administrator, KDE bugs database) Received: (at submit) by bugs.kde.org; 29 Oct 1999 15:36:15 +0000 From Treed@CAM.ORG Fri Oct 29 17:36:15 1999 Received: from treed.HIP.CAM.ORG ([205.151.118.3]:7176 "EHLO treed.HIP.CAM.ORG") by max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de with ESMTP id ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 17:36:12 +0200 Received: from [205.151.118.3] (127.0.0.1) by treed.HIP.CAM.ORG with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 1.2); Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:36:01 -0400 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Eudora 3.1.3 for Macintosh Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:35:56 -0400 To: submit@bugs.kde.org From: Tony Reed Subject: KPPP always asks for Root Password Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;submit@bugs.kde.org Package: kppp KDE Version: 1.1.2 RedHat 6.1 If I try to open Kppp as any user other than root, Kppp puts up a dialog asking for "Root's Password:" I have read and re-read, I have setuid root to all my devices, to pppd, to kppp, and I have given rw permissions to everything I can think of. I have tried setting up a "pppusers" group with the appropriate permissions set, all to no avail. I had this working in the version of kppp that shipped with Red Hat 6.0, and I was most pleased. Now I am not. Tony Reed. -- Tony Reed