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horatio＠gm.gamemaster.qc.ca

26 Jun 2000 26 Jun '00

15:03

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 ;-) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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mcmxc＠freemail.gr

27 Jun 27 Jun

04:07

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:

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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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horatio＠gm.gamemaster.qc.ca

29 Jun 29 Jun

03:01

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:

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Through YaST -> Sys. adm. -> user adm. select 'access to modem permitted'

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N

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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:

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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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cpchan＠myna.com

28 Jun 28 Jun

21:30

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"Horatio" == Horatio writes:

> 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. I had the same problem with 6.3. What I did to solve it was to make wvdial setuid root and only allow group dialout to access it. Charles -- ===================================================== One Net to rule them all, One Net to find them, One Net to bring them all, and with Linux bind them. ===================================================== -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

landie＠concentric.net

29 Jun 29 Jun

03:33

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. >

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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote:

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Through YaST -> Sys. adm. -> user adm. select 'access to modem permitted'

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N

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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:

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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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horatio＠gm.gamemaster.qc.ca

05:37

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Are you thinking about the "Access to modem permitted" option available inside YAST's user configuration menu? That option is already selected. On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote:

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

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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. >

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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote:

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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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mcmxc＠freemail.gr

09:56

dose this seem ok to you? crw-rw---- 1 uucp uucp 4, 65 Jun 29 10:52 /dev/ttyS1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root dialout 101668 Apr 15 1999 /usr/bin/wvdial* $ id uid=500(userX) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),6(disk),14(uucp),16(dialout) Horatio wrote:

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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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landie＠concentric.net

14:04

/usr/bin/wvdial should be root root On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Nicholas wrote:

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dose this seem ok to you?

crw-rw---- 1 uucp uucp 4, 65 Jun 29 10:52 /dev/ttyS1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root dialout 101668 Apr 15 1999 /usr/bin/wvdial*

$ id uid=500(userX) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),6(disk),14(uucp),16(dialout)

Horatio wrote:

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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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toganm＠turk.net

27 Jun 27 Jun

16:11

Horatio started typing into the keyboard and wrote:

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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.

I have learnt from the previous emails and Lenz or Phillip will both suggest get the user to dialout group and your problem willbe solved even if you upgrade the package or whatever. Using YAST to add the user to the dialout group should be easy

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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.

Those messages are normal since those file has root owneership and normal user can not change these files. I ahve the also but I do not bother with it Hope it helps -- Togan Muftuoglu toganm@turk.net It said "Needs Windows 98 or better." So I installed Linux... -o) /\\ _\_v The penguins are coming... the penguins are coming... ----------------------------------- 100% MS FREE Absolutely no component of Microsoft was used in the generation or posting of this e-mail. So it is virus free -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

horatio＠gm.gamemaster.qc.ca

29 Jun 29 Jun

03:10

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, you wrote:

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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.

I have learnt from the previous emails and Lenz or Phillip will both suggest get the user to dialout group and your problem willbe solved even if you upgrade the package or whatever. Using YAST to add the user to the dialout group should be easy

This was already done prior to the problem arising with WVDial: As described in the SuSE manual, I have made the user a member of the groups dialout and uucp. The option "Use of the modem permitted" was also enabled through the user configuration section in YAST. There is something else that must be the cause of my problem.

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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.

Those messages are normal since those file has root owneership and normal user can not change these files. I ahve the also but I do not bother with it

Hope it helps -- Togan Muftuoglu toganm@turk.net

It said "Needs Windows 98 or better." So I installed Linux...

-o) /\\ _\_v

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praisetazio＠tiscalinet.it

1 Jul 1 Jul

16:56

Horatio wrote:

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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"

Permission denied is not a problem here. I have this message too, but wvdial should connect without any problem. If you HATE those messages, you could modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secret permissions, but any user with modem access could read your password to the internet.

...

Thanks,

Francois Bertin New Linux user ;-)

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cpchan＠myna.com
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landie＠concentric.net
mcmxc＠freemail.gr
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