Am Dienstag, 26. Januar 2010 schrieb lego_12...@rambler.ru: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:34:33PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a l?ttle understanding problem. Maybe someone can advice > > me. > > > > On my EEEPC I am running an application called "umtsmon" (this is for > > gprs- access). Umtsmom is a single binary located in /usr/bin. > > > > When I start it, it is started, and when I want to connect to the > > internet it starts a modem connection by using pppd. > > > > This is fine working, when I am starting it as user "root". (I use "sux" > > to become root from a normal user). > > > > When I start umtsmon as normal user, pppd is not allowed to be used by > > this user. This is ok, I want only users in a special group use pppd. > > > > So far so well, but I dop not understand this: When set the binary > > with rwsr-x--- (root:dialout), then umtsmon should start with the rights > > of root and should be also allowed to start pppd! But i does clearly NOT! > > I get the maesage: pppd is not allowed to start, only root is allowed to > > start it. > > > > What do I do wrong? Where do I think wrong? > > > > BTW: maybe someone wants to adopt umtsmon and create a package. It is > > open- source / GPL and it is really great tool (This only remarked > > besides) > > > > Thank you for any help! > > > > > > Best regards > > > > Hans > > Excuse me, what about sudo? > Two things: First, I do not want to use sudo (this is Ubuntu-style, and I hate Ubuntu!) and sudo is not the way I want it to do for some reasons. Second, it is much more important for me, to understand what happens, rather than get a solution.
A solution is already available: As I am already root on the system, I just start it as root. :) Greets Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org