On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:33:09 +0000
"b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > I have tried alot of approaches.  Wvdial is superior for detecting 
> > hardware: it found my modem on ttyS14, where other approaches hadn't 
> > found it. 
> > 
> > What I cannot seem to do is set up for my family to dial in from their 
> > accounts.  I have tried changing permissions of various kinds, adding 
> > user to dialout, etc. 
> 
> suid the wvdial binary.
> m.

Don't do that! Just set the user in the correct groups per the
instructions in the ebuild!

suid is very rarely the correct answer. If it was the ebuild would do
it for you.


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