[KLUG Members] kppp and modem as root only, RH 9

[Paul VandenBosch]

After installing RH9, I was able to start KPPP only after logging in as
root.  I want users to be able to use the modem.

Googling around on this subject I found a few different suggestions.
chmod 777 /dev/modem
chmod 777 /dev/ttyS0
these did not work.

Another solution off the net worked:
The desktop kppp icon calls /usr/bin/kppp.  /usr/bin/kppp is a link to
/usr/bin/consolehelper, which apparently does authentication and then
starts up /usr/sbin/kppp.  /usr/sbin/kppp seems to be the actual
executable file for kppp.  So I copied /usr/sbin/kppp to /usr/bin/kppp,
and it seems to work, although I am not sure it is 100% OK yet.

Does this sound like a good way to solve the problem?

Is there a better way to allow all users access to kppp and the modem?

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