kppp authorization

Stephen Harker yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Dec 26 20:38:01 2003


On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 02:53:27PM +0100, gregor willms wrote:
> I am runnig YDL 3 on a cube and got a problem with the
> Internetconnection via kppp; I only can open the kppp by using the
> root-password, but would like to connect to the internet without
> having to prompt the root-password everytime, I want to run the
> kppp. Has anyone an idea how to change settings.

>From a post I saw in comp.os.linux.setup it it can be changed by
editing /etc/pam.d/kppp.  Comment out the first line and add one after
it:

#auth    sufficient      /lib/security/pam_rootok.so
auth    sufficient      /lib/security/pam_permit.so



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