[PLUG] wvdial, pppd, and permissions insanity-- solved

[Carla Schroder]

On Saturday 15 October 2005 7:42 am, Kenneth G. Stephens wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 18:29 -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > On Friday 14 October 2005 8:28 am, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > > OK gang, this is driving me nuts.
> > >
> > > I want to let non-privileged users run wvdial. It works on Debian. Here
> > > is how it's set up:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > Then we come to CentOS, which is a Red hat clone. (cue ominous music).
> >
> > Ha! It was wrong permissions on /var/lock! CentOS had them at
> > drwxrwxr-t. I changed it to drwxrwxr-t, like it's SUPPOSED to be, and all
> > fixed now. Wheee!
>
> Ah, Carla, I don't see any difference in the permissions.  I may need to
> go see an optomitrist, though.  Could you please shed some more light on
> this?
>
> Ken
> CAD 2 CAM

It's the little-known "sekkrit bit." Surely advanced persons like Pluggers 
would know this.

Or it could be that the correct permissions are world-everything:

drwxrwxrwt

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