Re: [Sheflug] Permissions

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Harvey Kelly wrote:

>I'm using wvdial to dial-up at the moment, but how do alter the
>permissions so you don't have to "su root"?  I do  chmod a+rw
>/dev/ttyS1 everytime at the moment.  And to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets &
>pap-secrets too? 

Put

ttyS1

on a line by itself in /etc/ppp/options. 

and chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd

That's all you need to do. You don't have to (and shouldn't) change the
permissions on /dev/ttyS1 or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets from 0600.

atb

Martin
-- 
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~pm1mph



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