Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Peter Kadau <peter.kadau@×××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ownership of /var/lock
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:55:02
Message-Id: 200108262154.f7QLsSZ23779@mailgate5.cinetic.de
1 hi !
2
3 > sudo?
4
5 err, nope, that's not the kind of solution i'm after...
6 pppd is already a suid-binary, and wvdial should work
7 with the good old unix-style groups-mechanism.
8
9 i'm gonna have a look how debian does that.
10 they have a group "dip", but i don't know, what was
11 that good for again ??
12
13 [snip]
14 > > i changed it to root.dialout,
15 > > but i assume that's not the best way to solve the problem...
16 > > any suggestions ?
17
18 thanks and ciao
19 peter
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22 Peter Kadau <peterdotkadauatwebdotde>
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24 "Why program by hand in five days what you can
25 spend five years of your life automating ?"
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