-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 18 September 2002 10:10 pm, Mohammed Sameer did speak unto the huddled masses, saying:
> > 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 you could always learn msec, and tell it to leave the permissions, but that would require some reading up at the mandrake site and finding all the files and such... - -- A clear breeze has no price, the bright moon no owner. - Song Hun shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9l2xYBwq+ZwvIN/oRAsupAJ4nZVAzgqNn1SKjh8jvrAVaHoav0wCdGGq4 vhV9Qh+hpTwNwTOtMlO17ng= =3JWO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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