[Sheflug] Permissions/WvDial

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kelly.uklinux.net>]

Hell again,

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Martin P Holland wrote:

> 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.

I've downloaded version 1.41 from SuSE - I had 1.40, I don't know if that
had anything to do with it  - and there was a handy little FAQ at the 
site about WvDial that was helpful:  I changed the default within YaST
from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS1 and I can dial-up as "harvey" instead of "su
root" now.  Ironic as I spent the last couple of weeks slagging off SuSE's
site.

Now the only problem is... after "Carrier detected" it tells me that it
couldn't modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets nor /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, permission
was denied, and that both PAP and CHAP may be flaky.

Is this okay/normal?  I've dialled-up about ten times this morning already
trying to test it, and it seems okay.  Is it just as stable as normal?

Thanks

Harvey


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