RE: [Sheflug] Thanks and WVDial permissions

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

looks fine to me :) I'm a lazy so-and-so, and use Midnight Commander for a 
lot of admin stuff so I know I get it right 1st tiem (desn't teach me much 
though). The equivalent in mc is ctrl-x o.

On Monday, July 31, 2000 9:00 PM, Keith Powell 
[SMTP:Keithp [at] g4jvx.screaming.net] wrote:
> Paul.
>
> Thanks for telling me what to do about WVDial permissions.
>
> You said:
>
> >Try setting group ownership to dialout rather than root for the 
*-secrets
> files.
>
> Still struggling with my way round Linux, I have been trying to find out 
how
> to do this. I can't find it in YAST, and have come to the conclusion that 
I
> use the "change group" command by going to the KDE terminal as root, and
> typing:
>
>   chgrp dialout  /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
>
> I then repeat this for chap-secrets.
>
> Could you kindly tell me if this is correct, please, or if I am 
completely
> wrong.
>
> I know that I am dealing with SuSE and not temperamental Windows, but I
> would hate to do the wrong thing and mess the installation up!
>
> Many thanks
>
> Keith
>
>
>
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