[CentOS] KPPP: why root?

William Hooper

whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed May 18 15:51:26 UTC 2005


Mark Weaver wrote:
> Mark Quitoriano wrote:
>
>> hmmm.. u can also do sudo for kppp
>>
>
> thought of that and gave it a try and its still asks for a password.

Are you running /usr/sbin/kppp, so that consolehelper isn't used?

Another option would be to configure consolehelper to allow the console
user to run kppp.  /etc/pam.d/poweroff (which doesn't require a password
for the console user) might be an OK template.


-- 
William Hooper




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