Re: [newbie] msec question
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:10, shane wrote: 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... msec is Customisable:- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/prog-msec.html This is for 8.2 but 8.1 isn't significantly different. Probably pay to print the whole chapter. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] msec question
-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- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] msec question
I'm pretty sure it has something to do with msec because i will 'chmod 777 /dev/ttyS1' and after sucessfully running wvdial as root the permissions of the device will are changed to 755. any idea how to work around this or at least account for the device permissions being changed? On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Franki wrote: as I understand it, one of the current limitations of wvdial is that it needs root when its used standalone... you need to look into sudo to get it working as a user. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Les Henderson Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2002 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] msec question 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? Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] msec question
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? Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] msec question
as I understand it, one of the current limitations of wvdial is that it needs root when its used standalone... you need to look into sudo to get it working as a user. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Les Henderson Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2002 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] msec question 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? Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] msec question
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. msg104456/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
