Re: Wvdial and non-root access

1999-11-01 Thread John Hasler
Cory Snavely writes: > Yeah, but since pppd runs setuid root, just membership in dip won't let > you kill pppd Your ability to kill a pppd you started has nothing to do with group membership. Pppd knows who started it and will obey a kill from that user. > ... unless you set poff setuid root

Re: Wvdial and non-root access

1999-11-01 Thread Cory Snavely
> Cory Snavely writes: > > I just set up ppp on my slink workstation yesterday, and I used sudo to > > avoid setting scripts suid (although pppd installs as suid root). Even > > though I'm using pon/poff, I'll bet sudo can solve your problem, too, if > > suid scripts give you "the feeling". > > You

Re: Wvdial and non-root access

1999-11-01 Thread Taupter
John Hasler wrote: > > Cory Snavely writes: > > I just set up ppp on my slink workstation yesterday, and I used sudo to > > avoid setting scripts suid (although pppd installs as suid root). Even > > though I'm using pon/poff, I'll bet sudo can solve your problem, too, if > > suid scripts give you

Re: Wvdial and non-root access

1999-10-31 Thread John Hasler
Cory Snavely writes: > I just set up ppp on my slink workstation yesterday, and I used sudo to > avoid setting scripts suid (although pppd installs as suid root). Even > though I'm using pon/poff, I'll bet sudo can solve your problem, too, if > suid scripts give you "the feeling". You just need to

Re: Wvdial and non-root access

1999-10-31 Thread Cory Snavely
> > Only root is able to use wvdial, even though I thought wvdial has been set > > up for use by non-root users. > > was wvdial set up for this by yourself, or by the wvdial install program? > > > When I, as user david, type wvdial, I get an error that david cannot have > > access to /dev/ttyS1. Th

Re: Wvdial and non-root access

1999-10-29 Thread Dave Baker
> Only root is able to use wvdial, even though I thought wvdial has been set > up for use by non-root users. was wvdial set up for this by yourself, or by the wvdial install program? > When I, as user david, type wvdial, I get an error that david cannot have > access to /dev/ttyS1. That's bette

Wvdial and non-root access

1999-10-29 Thread David J. Kanter
Only root is able to use wvdial, even though I thought wvdial has been set up for use by non-root users. When I, as user david, type wvdial, I get an error that david cannot have access to /dev/ttyS1. That's better than before, when david couldn't access the wvdial.conf file. david has been added