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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