Re: Wvdial - How do you surf without being root?
I use wvdial as root to surf, irc etc etc, ive never had a problem with it.
wvdial.conf is set with root permissions. if you have a secure system you
shouldnt really have a problem with wvdial. log in as a normal user, su to
root and wvdial fromt here, then browse as a regular user. by default debian
doesnt allow browsing as root i dont think.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Usuario Universo Online" <hzi@uol.com.br>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 10:30 PM
Subject: Wvdial - How do you surf without being root?
> Hello-
>
> My questions regards the safety of using the wvdial program to log on to
> the ISP and surf.
> Wvdial can only be set to be run as root, isn't that right?
> If it isn't so, how should you set permission to run it without being
> root?
> Is this even something we should be worrying about? Is it safe to run
> wvdial as root then surf?
>
> Help would be greatly appreciated, I'm not quite a total newbie with
> Linux, but I'm not a "techie".
> Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Henry L.
>
>
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