[CentOS] KPPP: why root?

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