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I haven't tried setuid for the wvdial binary. I have joined the users to |
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the groups "dialout" and "uucp". I have also changed the owner of various |
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binaries to include users, including "wvdial". I followed someone's advice |
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on the Inet and set pppd setuid for the group "ppp" which I also joined all |
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users to. |
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I don't want my wife to have to "sudo yada yada." I want to grant her |
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permissions. I have used pppconfig for years. It won't find /dev/ttyS14, |
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while wvdial did, uniquely among all dialup clients I have tried. kppp |
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didn't. I had to make the tty's with MAKEDEV. Maybe I can use pppconfig |
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now that I have found out the dev file. Wvdial works well. |
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I would ideally like my wife to be able to click on a modem icon / applet to |
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dial in and to quit. I understand why in a server environment, one would be |
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paranoid. I WANT to grant this permission to users at my discretion. |
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Thank you for the ideas, everyone. I will follow them up. |
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Alan Davis |
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On 11/28/05, Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:33:09 +0000 |
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> "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> > > I have tried alot of approaches. Wvdial is superior for detecting |
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> > > hardware: it found my modem on ttyS14, where other approaches hadn't |
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> > > found it. |
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> > > What I cannot seem to do is set up for my family to dial in from their |
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> > > accounts. I have tried changing permissions of various kinds, adding |
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> > > user to dialout, etc. |
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> > suid the wvdial binary. |
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> > m. |
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> Don't do that! Just set the user in the correct groups per the |
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> instructions in the ebuild! |
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> suid is very rarely the correct answer. If it was the ebuild would do |
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> it for you. |
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