On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 22:13:25 +0200
Sjoerd Hiemstra
David wrote:
wvdial ====== Users can no longer use the wvdial command to go online with PPP. But no worry, qinternet is a great new tool (that uses wvdial behind the scenes.)
??? Running wvdial as user in 8.2 here. In order to run wvdial as normal user, make sure that your username belongs to groups 'uucp' and 'dialout'. Do a chmod 775 /usr/sbin/pppd and set the safety settings to 'easy', so 775 is not reset to 600.
And set the setuid bit: chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd. The only issue is that every time SuSEconfig is running, this gets lost.
You can stop this from happening. Go to /etc/sysconfig/security and set CHECK_PERMISSIONS=NO Or you can remove the line for /usr/sbin/pppd from /etc/permissions -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation