St�phane BRUCHET wrote: > > Hello ! > > Zentara tells me two things: > > 1) Put "Stupid Mode =yes" in wvdial.conf, this forces a pap login, without > showing the password onscreen, > 2) then change permissions on pap-secrets > to read-write only by root. > (This will prevent any users at your > console from seeing your password, yet they can still dialout > if in the dialout group. The pap-secret file isn't sent encrypted, > but at least the password never is shown on the screen.) > > i am connect by root but i can not changes the permissions on > pap-secrets: chmod 666 (with mc or kde properties). it tells me > that it is only a read files and i can not change properties. > how i can change this > Thank you very much but i am difficulties to connect internet > with Linux... but i will succeed with you i hope. > thanks very much > Hi, if you are root, you should be able to use mc to change the permissions. Highlight the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file in mc, then hit <control><x> <c>, that is control+x then c. Then set the properties to read-write by owner, group and others. That is 666. Do it for chap-secrets also. Then run wvdial once, and it will properly write your chap-secrets and pap-secrets. Then use mc to change those permissions back to 600, which is read-write by owner. In mc, <control><x> <o> will let you change ownerships. Good luck. - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
