Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
> I tried to send msg this from SL using thunderbird, but have not seen it
> - or much of anything, come to think of it, for the last several days -
> show up on the list, so I'm re-sending it.
> 
> I finally got SL 4.2 installed, and the video working, on my stand-alone
> workstation.  And KPPP does work to connect to the I'net, but to do so
> requires root privileges.  I'd like to change this so that KPPP will also
> work for me as a non-root user, without having to enter the password
> every time, but so far haven't been able to figure out what needs to be
> modified.  Suggestions/intructions would be much appreciated.

I can't remember the exact details but access to kppp is controlled 
through the consolehelper wrapper program - try 'man consolehelper'
for a start.

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Mark Whidby
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences