On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:24:14PM +0300, lego_12239@rambler.ru wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:34:33PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a l?ttle understanding problem. Maybe someone can advice me. > > > > On my EEEPC I am running an application called "umtsmon" (this is for gprs- > > access). Umtsmom is a single binary located in /usr/bin. > > > > When I start it, it is started, and when I want to connect to the internet it > > starts a modem connection by using pppd. > > > > This is fine working, when I am starting it as user "root". (I use "sux" to > > become root from a normal user). > > > > When I start umtsmon as normal user, pppd is not allowed to be used by this > > user. This is ok, I want only users in a special group use pppd. > > > > So far so well, but I dop not understand this: When set the binary > > with rwsr-x--- (root:dialout), then umtsmon should start with the rights of may your user part of dialout. Only root and dialout are allowed to execute this bin see rwsr-x--- if it was rwsr-xr-x every one would be allowed to > > root and should be also allowed to start pppd! But i does clearly NOT! I get > > the maesage: pppd is not allowed to start, only root is allowed to start it. > > > > What do I do wrong? Where do I think wrong? > > > > BTW: maybe someone wants to adopt umtsmon and create a package. It is open- > > source / GPL and it is really great tool (This only remarked besides) > > > > Thank you for any help! > > > > > > Best regards > > > > Hans > > Excuse me, what about sudo? > > -- "Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace." - George W. Bush 07/25/2003 Washington, DC
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