On Friday 17 May 2002 05.39, Bryce Hardy wrote:
On Thursday 16 May 2002 08:22 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
Moreover Wvdial can only be configured as 'root', and the configuration file ownership and rw permissions are only for 'root', so if you subsequently login as 'user' and try to dial-up using Wvdial you get rebuffed with a message that you have no permission! Then you have to change the ownership and rw group permissions to get round this. Having got this done, you're STILL not finished!
No, this is wrong. What you should do is place the user that is allowed to use the modem in the "dialout" group.
I had this happen to me, I tried to change the phone number for dialing by logging in as root (into WindowMaker) and running xedit to change etc/wvdial.conf. When I logged back in as myself, the above-mentioned problem occured. When I read your reply above I checked in the Users/Groups module in YaST2 but it says I am in the dialout group. So that must not be the problem.
Well, you also need to be in the "uucp" group, since that's the group that owns the modem devices. In the past there was a little check box "user is allowed to access the modem" but that's gone. Instead, both dialout and uucp are by default checked when you create users with YaST2. But what you're saying sounds like it worked before you edited the config, but afterwards it didn't. If that's true, I suggest you look at how you edit it. An editor shouldn't change file permissions on a file. That file /etc/wvdial.conf has by default rw access for user root and read access for group dialout. That's all that's needed. //Anders -- I swear I do declare - how did you get that there?