On Jul 17, "Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote: > Sorry. if I am wrong, I am not very well experienced with the required access > rights. The background of my report is, that I tried to start the application > "umtsmon" (a dialout application for 3g-modems) as a normal user, and I found > no way to start it as no one else as root. The main problem is: It MUST be > started as root, as /dev/ppp has to be accessed by root. In other words: If > you start umtsmon as user root, everything is working fine, if you start it as > a normal user (which should be able to), it crashes because it cannot get > access to /dev/ppp. Maybe this program needs to be modified to use a suid helper or a daemon which interacts with the hardware. But I can't see why it would need access to /dev/ppp. -- ciao, Marco
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