On 6 Jul 2001, tabanna wrote:
I never managed to get wvdial working, and have been using kppp for my Dial-Up Internet connection.
I use wvdial to connect to Earthlink all the time, so I guess I'm at least partially qualified to reply.
Recently, I loaded another Linux distro on a separate partition, and, strangely, wvdial set itself up without problems . . . So, I thought I would try copying wvdial across to my SuSE partition.
What exactly did you copy? All wvdial files or just /etc/wvdial.conf and the file in /etc/ppp/peers/ .
wvdial now works OK on SuSE partition, but, Complains that the connection may be 'flaky' because, wvdial does not have permission to write to file /etc/ppp/chap-secrets.
Permissions are thus :- _________________________ -rw------- 1 root root 113 Jul 6 06:53 /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root uucp 67068 Jul 5 21:42 /usr/bin/wvdial ____________________________________________________________________________
I believe that it is NOT ok for a Group, to have write permission for file /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
~ What am I missing, and, is there a work-around, please ?
The permissions look fine to me (root has write access to /usr/bin/wvdial... doesn't really matter though). I agree with you on the fact that users should neither read nor write to /etc/ppp/chat-secrets. Do you connect successfully? If so, nobody needs write access because the settings are all there. The error message is then just superfluous. If you do not connect, allow write for just once so wvdial will write whatever it needs to. At that point, remove write priveleges and all should be well. BTW, do you use CHAP? If you don't, you don't need /etc/ppp/chap-secrets at all... What are you permissions for /etc/ppp/pap-secrets if you use PAP... -- noodlez: Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 0x3A1446A0