I've decided to automate what I've been doing manually after starting pppd, via pon.
/usr/bin/pon (a script) starts /usr/sbin/pppd (an suid root executable). I used to start pon as root, but I've added myself to the dip group so I now can start it as a regular user. After the link is up, /etc/ppp/ip-up.local is executed. This works to get the mail and usenet news. But I would like a window to pop up telling me when that is done, so I researched a bit and found zenity. I also wanted to pop up a konsole with pppstatus running in it. When running a test script as myself that runs the zenity line: zenity --info --text="Done getting the news" it works fine, the window pops up. But when called from ip-up.local nothing happens. The only error in the log file is: This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages. I've also tried: su <regular-user> -c 'zenity --info --text="Done getting the news"' with the same result. I understand that pppd is suid root and that is the likely cause of the problem. I've added DISPLAY=:0.0 before calling zenity with no effect. The konsole with pppstatus running in it is called from ip-up.local like this: su <regular-user> -c "konsole --vt_sz 80x24 --nomenubar --notabbar --noscrollbar -e pppstatus -s 1540" I've also tried without su. The result is the same: konsole: cannot connect to X server And this is even after I've typed xhost + from a regular user console. The X/kde session was started as that user. I understand that it is a security feature of the X server not to allow connections from root, but how do I get a window popped up from a setuid root script? There is one more oddity. When ip-up.local is executed, pppstatus started by hand (as a regular user) thinks that ppp is disconnected/off. When ip-up.local is renamed and thus not found/executed, pppstatus has access and works fine. Any hints or explanations? Thanks! A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
