[CentOS] KPPP: why root?

Mark Weaver

mdw1982 at mdw1982.com
Wed May 18 17:01:15 UTC 2005


William Hooper wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

That did the trick!!! thanks so much.

Mark



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