[plug] Kppp

[Len Bird]

Me again: Yes kppp works just fine in Mandrake/KDE so it must be a bug in
RedHat 6.2

Len.

Darrell Horrocks wrote:

> 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