I think once you establish connection, few files are written(I don't remember
exactly), to which only root has permission. That's the reason. Better let user
su it and run it. Or write a suid C program to call system("wvdial");
Shridhar
shubhendu wrote:
>
> hi friends
>
> today i observed strange nature of wvdial , while trying to give wvdial
> permition to a user to users i put set userid bit for /uer/bin/wvdial ON
> now the user is able to run wvdial the connection is getting establised
> but it breaks within a few seconds aftre sending password
>
> while trying from root same connection behaves well
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