On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:10, shane wrote: > On Wednesday 18 September 2002 10:10 pm, Mohammed Sameer did speak unto the > > huddled masses, saying: > > > I've been using wvdial on my LM8.1 box to connect to my ISP. I've not > > > been able to get a normal user account to be able to use wvdial. I > > > keep on getting the error message "Device or resource busy". I can use > > > it fine if I su to root first. I've tried setting the permissions of > > > the device to rwxrwxrwx, but the permissions always are changed to > > > rwxr-xr-x when i use wvdial. I am pretty sure that msec is changing > > > the permissions of the device when pppd is started. Any idea what > > > changes I need to make to get wvdial to work for a normal user? > > > > for me, i just chmod +s /usr/bin/wvdial > > but that's the most stupid solution!!! > > and a very insecure thing > > you could always learn msec, and tell it to leave the permissions, but that > would require some reading up at the mandrake site and finding all the > files and such...
msec is Customisable:- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/prog-msec.html This is for 8.2 but 8.1 isn't significantly different. Probably pay to print the whole chapter. -- Michael
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