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From: jano <jano@××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ownership of /var/lock
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 12:05:21
Message-Id: 63214.63.204.249.181.998849732.squirrel@www.portablehole.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] ownership of /var/lock by Peter Kadau
1 sudo?
2
3 > hi !
4 >
5 > being fed up of starting wvdial as root, i found that
6 > an ordinary user, though in group dialout, can't use wvdial
7 > properly, because of lack of permissions for /var/lock.
8 > by default it is root.uucp
9 > i changed it to root.dialout,
10 > but i assume that's not the best way to solve the problem...
11 > any suggestions ?
12 >
13 > thanks and ciao
14 > peter
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