Re: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change
Hello
csj (<csj@zapo.net>) wrote:
> On 7. December 2003 at 1:32PM -0500,
> Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> wrote:
>
>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> I hardly think it necessary to install the Mega-size KDE libs
>>> to use kppp, but what is the reason pon/poff won't do?
>>> Although admittedly that is no solution to your problem ;-)
>>>
>> I used to have this exact same problem on my machine (except
>> with /dev/ttyLT0, since it is a Lucent winmodem). But I don't
>> know that there is a solution. Especially since I think that
>> kppp would need to be suid root (not a good idea) to get past
>> this problem.
>
> I've always wondered why it should require root-level access (or
> its equivalent in the case of kppp) to set even the "safer"
> config options in ppp and friends, e.g. the dialup number and
> login password. Couldn't there be a ppp group so that even
> Friend X, sharing the dorm computer, could log-in to the ISP of
> his choice without waking up the admin?
You can of course use predefined connections with pon/poff if you are in
the dip group, and you can create your own ones for use with kppp
/without/ kppp being suid root, if you are in the dialout group.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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