[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:
>
>
>>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
>
>
>
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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