Re: [Sheflug] Permissions/WvDial

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

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Harvey Kelly wrote:

>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.

Well that's good really it means a program running under your userid can't
modify files owned by root with 600 permissions. ;-)

>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?

Yes it's fine. I'm not very familiar with wvdial but as I understand it the way
it works is that it looks out for key words like CHAP MD5 in /var/log/messages
and tries to decide on the fly what authentication you need to use. It will then
write the appropriate secrets file accordingly. In your case (when you ran it as
root) it already wrote the secrets file, so there's no need to write it again.

It might complain a bit that your not giving it a chance to do it's thing but
once the secrets file is correct it can do everything else as a user.

atb

Martin

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