Mark Whidby <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >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. Thanks, Mark, this is probably the key I was looking for. - Dushan