Damn.
I'm trying to set up a personal system to use kde and kppp. kppp is
easily set up for root but for ordinary users?
RedHat seems to have gone out of its way to make this impossible!
I previously used Mandrake 6.0 and kppp was
the only modem solution I could get to work reliably for me. Now I've
"upgraded" back to Redhat 6.1 (I decided Mandrake was a little too
unreliable) and what a mess!
For root, kppp in the default setup maps to /usr/sbin/kppp. However,
for non-root users the system finds
/usr/bin/kppp which is a symbolic link to something called
/usr/bin/consolehelper which demands to know the root password. No
thanks, I don't want to have to type in the root password just to start
kppp.
There is all sorts of documentation provided by the KDE folks for
getting kppp to work - unfortunately, none of it applies to the
configuration Redhat has saddled us with.
So I decided that the easiest thing to do would be to make a new
/usr/bin/kppp that is a symbolic link directly to
/usr/sbin/kppp. This works, sort of but when I try to invoke it, it
tells me that it can't find the interface ppp0.
I'm stymied here. I have got the system set up to allow non-root users
to access my ppp0 interface. And Gnome/RP3
have no trouble finding ppp0.
So 2 questions
1. What gives? It seems like Redhat has gone out of its way to make
kppp hard to use? (Where have I heard that one before?)
2. What is a workaround for this?
By the way, I really don't mind Gnome either (although this is the first
I've used it.) But one thing I really can't stand is that the when you
invoke the Gnome terminal program you have to then click into it instead
of its being given keyboard focus (like every other gui app). Is there
a workaround for this bug?
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