Re: kppp problem

[DMW <shamrock@mtco.com>]

I upgraded to 1.1.2 by downloading the rpm's and just running "rpm -Uvh"
on all the packages. That's it! I have no clue what consolehelper is.

A tip from someone else led me to another possible culprit -- PAM. I
don't know anything about PAM and I'm really not to the point where I
want to learn about it (I'm a user, not a system administrator).

Anyway, kppp (at least now) is a PAM -enabled program, whatever that is,
and here is what is in /etc/pam.d/kppp:

#%PAM-1.0
auth       sufficient   /lib/security/pam_rootok.so
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
session    optional     /lib/security/pam_xauth.so
account    required     /lib/security/pam_permit.so       

Can someone who knows PAM tell me if something here is causing this
difficult kppp behavior? I'm thinking that compiling kppp source and
re-installing it will not help my problem if this PAM stuff is sprayed
all over everything.

Thanks again...

cloudmaster wrote:
> 
> So, what is that consolehelper thing, and why is kppp a symlink to it?  How
> did you upgrade to kde 1.1.2?  I'm gonna guess that you're running an evil
> redhat - like system that changed stuff in some evil way (to make it easier
> on the user through obfuscation), but that prolly doesn't help you much. :)
> 
> My suggestion is to go to http://devel-home.kde.org/~kppp/index.html,
> download the newest kppp archive and follow the nice, easy compile +
> install steps at the top of the page.  That will likely overwrite that
> symlink with a real executable that I understand.  I like getting rid of
> things I don't understand...
> 
> Anyway, by building it yourself, you get the most current version and we
> can then be of more help, since it's clear what's going on.  The only
> reason I can think of to keep the link-to-some-weird-program is if you know
> what it is and why it's there.
> 
> --Danny, just kidding about the redhat thing ;)
> 
> DMW wrote:
> > Here's what I got:
> >
> > [shamrock@localhost shamrock]$ ls -al /usr/bin/kppp
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           13 Nov 20 18:38 /usr/bin/kppp ->
> > consolehelper
> > [shamrock@localhost shamrock]$ ls -al /usr/sbin/pppd
> > -rwsr-sr-x   1 root     root       120020 Apr  9  1999
> > /usr/sbin/pppd
> > [shamrock@localhost shamrock]$ ls -al /usr/bin/consolehelper
> > -rwsr-sr-x   1 root     root        17616 Apr 12  1999
> > /usr/bin/consolehelper
> >
> > Everything else except kppp will launch from a terminal window (or
> > anywhere)...kppp requires me to do the "xhost + localhost" and makes me
> > enter my system password.
> 
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