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

John Purser jmpurser at gmail.com
Sat Oct 15 15:32:47 UTC 2005


Carla Schroder wrote:

>On Saturday 15 October 2005 7:42 am, Kenneth G. Stephens wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 18:29 -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
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>>>On Friday 14 October 2005 8:28 am, Carla Schroder wrote:
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>>>>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:
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>>>>
>>>...
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>>>>Then we come to CentOS, which is a Red hat clone. (cue ominous music).
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>>>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!
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>>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
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>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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Thanks Carla.  I wonder how many total man hours were spent comparing 
those two permission sets trying to figure out what was wrong!

John Purser



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