[ILUG] Kppp

Mon Jun 17 17:01:08 IST 2002

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On Monday 17 June 2002 16:30, Gregory McRandal (ext 722) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've managed to botch Kppp (KDE's internet dialler), btw I'm using KDE 3.0
> and RH7.2.  Normally when a user runs it they are asked to enter the root
> password to continue.  I wanted to have it not ask for the root password
> and just work.  So, in accordance with KDEs advice, I created a group
> called dialer containing all the users who should be allowed to use Kppp,
> and called "chgrp root.dialer kppp" and then "chmod 4750 kppp". After doing
> this kpp would not run as a user, It said the kppp was trying to setuid or
> setgid and that GTk+ doesn't allow this.  So I called "chgrp root.root
> kppp" and the same error persists. It works fine for root.
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or
> setgid.
> This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
> program instead. For further details, see:
> http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
> Refusing to initialize GTK+.
>this is due to how RedHat use helper programs to enable users to run admin 
programs (assuming they know the root password). if you do a 
ls -l /usr/bin/kppp
you will see something like:
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 May 14 14:00 /usr/bin/kppp -> 
consolehelper

console helper is that helper program. TO fix this problem remove this link 
and replace it with a link to the _real_ kppp program (which usually resides 
in /usr/sbin) and do your chmod on /usr/sbin/kppp.
That should do the job...
hth,
tom.

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