Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2425 mails)

[landie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rolando Roman)]

you need not add to dialout group yast has a feature which gives
acces to modem,  that should be enough

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Horatio
wrote: > Hi, > The "Access to modem permitted" option is already
enabled for the user I login > with, which is also a member of the
groups uuco and dialout, as specified in > the  SuSE manual in order
to use WVDial with a non-root user. So, there must be > something else
involved that disable the use of WVDial when I login with that >
particular non-root user. > 
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Through YaST -> Sys. adm. -> user adm. select 'access to modem permitted'
> 
> > N
>  
> > ps.1 When you run SuSEconfig it sets permissions on /dev/* according
> >      to /etc/permissions so 666 doesn't work.
> > 
> > ps.2 pap/chap-secrets are owned by root so you can't change them
> >      (doesn't need to, wvdial will run)
> > 
> > Horatio wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > I have a problem when using WVDial in user mode. When I start it in a
> > > console, I get  the message "Cannot open /dev/ttyS3; Permission denied". I can
> > > get over this by login in root and changing the permission with the command
> > > "chmod 666 /dev/ttyS3", althought it seems only to work for one session. Each time
> > > I shutdown the system, it has to be done again.
> > >
> > > Now, when I launch the program, it works but I get the
> > > following warnings:
> > >
> > > "Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied
> > > "Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied
> > > "CHAP (challenge handshake) may be flaky"
> > >
> > > Any idea about what might be causing these messages, and how it can be solved?
> > > Note that WVdial was installed through YAST in root mode.
> > >
> > > Also, I have seen on the WVDial web siste that there is a new version, 1.41,
> > > but the changes from previous version are not described. Is it worth the
> > > download and the installation? Here I currently uses version 1.40.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Francois Bertin
> > > New Linux user ;-)
> > >
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