On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

> 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");

I think the /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial is not having read permissions for all,
anyway set the debug flag and look at the logs, you'l get, which file is
not getting the appropriate permission

-- sreangsu


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