kppp authorization

[gregor willms]

>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



>-- 
>Stephen Harker                           Stephen.Harker@spme.monash.edu.au
>School of Physics & Materials Engineering
>Monash University                       http://www.ph.adfa.edu.au/s-harker/
>                                 Baloney Baffles brains: Eric Frank Russell

thank you, it seems to works fine after changing the kppp-config-file this 
way.