the permitions on pppd have changed, and I had to manually fix it this morning, otherwise my users couldn't connect! RedHat will NOT warn you when permitions change! bit:root /usr/sbin >chown root.ppp pppd bit:root /usr/sbin >chmod 4750 pppd bit:root /usr/sbin >ls -la pppd -rwsr-x--- 1 root ppp 74580 Aug 29 20:33 pppd or else it was not suid-root. of you want to risk using something like sudo, I guess no problem though...