Actually I've set the permissions to 6775 so that group had suid as well.  I still get the error.  I've been launching the application from the command line as root (i.e. Su root) and it works like you said. I don't understand why I can't launch it as a user.

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On 1/4/01, 8:15:31 PM, Tighe <emry@accessus.net> wrote regarding Re: KDE's PPP Tool:

> Are you doing an su or an su -?  If you want to run it from the command
> line, then just do the su it will keep your DISPLAY variable set teh
> same.  But, if you want to be able to do it normally.  You are going to
> need to set teh SUID bit on the program.  chmod 4755 should do the trick.

> tighe

> >Since I've re-installed RedHat 6.2 from scratch I've run into a few
> >gliches I've forgotten how to fix.
> >
> >How does one set up PPP so that a regular user can launch it?  If I log
> >in as a regular user (i.e. not root) I'm unable to launch KDE's PPP tool
> >- Kppp.  It works when I'm root but not as a user.  Never had the
> >problem before.
> >
> >If it helps, I get the following message when I try to run Kppp from the
> >command line:
> >
> >    Xlib:  Connect to ":0.0" refused by Server
> >    Xlib:  Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> >    Kppp:  Cannot connect to X Server :0.0
> >
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