Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): But let me quote: Debian has to be built for people who *do* care, so advice that compromises security is not to be welcomed here For me it says sth like this: Debian is only for users who care about security, so if you don't, we don't

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-09 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: Piotrek writes: So say how it should be, but don't say me how i should do it. When you ask for free help on a mailing list or newsgroup you get the answers people see fit to give you. Statements such as this just might result in someone who could

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: pppd removes g+w from /dev/ttyS1 after it is started. So next time I have to be root

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting USM Bish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Owner, group and permissions for the modem on my system is the default installed by debian. Incidentally, debian developers are very commited and mature and surely would not goof up on these small aspects. The default setup is: crw-r- 1

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-08 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: pppd removes g+w from /dev/ttyS1 after it is

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-08 Thread John Hasler
Piotrek writes: So say how it should be, but don't say me how i should do it. When you ask for free help on a mailing list or newsgroup you get the answers people see fit to give you. Statements such as this just might result in someone who could answer your questions deciding to ignore you

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-06 Thread USM Bish
Wrong. That would allow all those users to snoop on each other's ppp connections, since they get read-access to the modem port. I'm the only user - it's my home computer so I don't care. The correct group is dip. Wrong again ;) At least with wvdial. With pon/poff it's all ok. i

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-06 Thread John Hasler
USM Bish writes: wvdial and other dial scripts like ppp-go, pon etc which finally call up pppd, needs to be run with root privileges. Any member of the 'dip' group can run pon. Root privileges are not needed. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-05 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: pppd removes g+w from /dev/ttyS1 after it is started. So next time I have to be root to use my modem (and to connect to internet). How to make

pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-04 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
Hi pppd removes g+w from /dev/ttyS1 after it is started. So next time I have to be root to use my modem (and to connect to internet). How to make pppd stop removing it ? -- Peter irc: #Debian.pl

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi pppd removes g+w from /dev/ttyS1 after it is started. So next time I have to be root to use my modem (and to connect to internet). How to make pppd stop removing it ? You don't want to do that. You want to allow pppd to put it back before

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-04 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: Hi pppd removes g+w from /dev/ttyS1 after it is started. So next time I have to be root to use my modem (and to connect to internet). How to make pppd stop removing it ? better: add users that need to use modem to dialout group; # adduser

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: pppd removes g+w from /dev/ttyS1 after it is started. So next time I have to be root to use my modem (and to connect to internet). How to make pppd stop removing it ? better: add

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-04 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: pppd removes g+w from /dev/ttyS1 after it is started. So next time I have to be root to use my modem (and to connect to internet). How to make