My Inbox Happily Received This From Les Henderson @ Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:00:41 -0500 (CDT)
> I've been using wvdial on my LM8.1 box to connect to my ISP. I've not > been able to get a normal user account to be able to use wvdial. I keep > on getting the error message "Device or resource busy". I can use it fine > if I su to root first. I've tried setting the permissions of the device > to rwxrwxrwx, but the permissions always are changed to rwxr-xr-x when i > use wvdial. I am pretty sure that msec is changing the permissions of > the device when pppd is started. Any idea what changes I need to make to > get wvdial to work for a normal user? > for me, i just chmod +s /usr/bin/wvdial but that's the most stupid solution!!! and a very insecure thing -- ---------------- -- Katoob Main Developer Linux registered user # 224950 ICQ # 58475622 With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibilities.
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