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Re: ppp/wvdial help!



On Fri, 26 May 2006 17:08:26 +0000
vasundhar <bvasundhar@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying wvdial as normal user and its giving errors saying no
> permissions to /dev/modem
> 
> and only getting connected when I am trying with root previlages.
> how ever if I am using as normal user, I am forced to run wvdial.conf
> once again to make the modem work efficiently.
> 
> I would like to know the way in which I can probably dial as a
> non-previlaged user.

Any user that wishes to use the modem needs to belong to the both the
dip & dialout group.

-- 
Robert "roach" Spencer
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa



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