Mark Quitoriano wrote:
if that's a server why use GUI? anyway there's a console base dialer(wvdial) that you can use to dial on bootup
no...this is purely a workstation that employees would use to access the internet, email, and get on UPS Online to do shipping with. I need to make a shortcut on the desktop to initiate a dial-up connection so they can get online. It just doesn't make any sense that kppp would need root access to activate the connection.
So far I've checked the perms on kppp and they're set to 777, although it would appear that kppp is a link to something else. As I recall from way back I used to set the perms to pppd from 755 to 4755 so that normal users could activate the connection.
ls -l /usr/bin/kppp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 9 14:22 /usr/bin/kppp -> consolehelper
ls -l /usr/bin/consolehelper -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5636 Feb 21 11:37 /usr/bin/consolehelper
this makes even less sense!
Mark