Re: User dialup access
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Jack Pistachio wrote:
> I'm trying to allow certain users to have dialup
> priveledges from debian. I use wvdial to connect as root.
> I've tried addgroup dialout USERNAME. The user can
> successfully dialout with wvdial, but once pppd is started
> it exits with error code #2. From man pppd this code
> corresponds to mutually exclusive options being passed to
> pppd. Doesn't really make sense to me since root probably
> passes the same options to pppd when using wvdial
> successfully. Finally, I have pppd setuid as per the pppd
> docs.
>
> What is missing here?
Try in /etc/sudoers:
userwithnoname ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/wvdial
Oliver
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