[plug] Kppp

[Darrell Horrocks]

Chris

Yup, seems to be a setting with regard to spawning a new process in
x-windows.  Haven't had time to figure it out myself though... (yes, it
happens on my RH6.2 system as well).

The way around it (and this seems silly) is to open up a terminal
window.  su to root, and then kppp & to bring up the kppp window.  All
is easy from this end.

If anyone else (RH gurus) can shed any light on this, I would be much
appreciated.

Regards

Darrell

Chris Norwood wrote:

> Hi, I have just installed RedHat 6.2 onto a duel boot Windows98
> system.  Yesterday I finally worked out how to set my modem up in KDE
> while logged as root.  It works fine.  However I am unable to get kppp
> to run as a normal user.  When I try to run Kppp I receive a dialog
> box asking for Root's password.  Entering the password does nothing. I
> have disabled the lock in /etc/ppp/options#lock The other thing I have
> looked at is the kppp.allow file, which doesn't exist.Do I need to
> make this file manually and insert my username?Or do I just need to
> make another account on Kppp for my user account while logged on as
> root? Any simple instructions or suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated as I am very green :-). Chris Norwood