kppp permissions

[h3xis]

just upgraded to fc3 and changed the permissions to allow me to run kppp without entering the root password each time i start it. well...this has always worked in past fedora versions except core 3. kppp will start but before it does it gives me a message saying

"you don't have sufficient permissions to run

/usr/sbin/pppd

please make sure that kppp is owned by root and has the SUID bit set."

so i gave myself permission to run pppd as well...but still got the same message. anyone know how to get around this?

[rezza Veteran]

Instead of giving your user permissions to run kppp and pppd, try just chmodding a+s kppp instead (setuid root). This means your normal user can run it, but when it runs it will run with root priveliges, so it can handle pppd properly.