[gentoo-dev] ownership of /var/lock

[gentoo-dev] ownership of /var/lock

[Peter Kadau]

hi !

being fed up of starting wvdial as root, i found that
an ordinary user, though in group dialout, can't use wvdial
properly, because of lack of permissions for /var/lock.
by default it is root.uucp
i changed it to root.dialout,
but i assume that's not the best way to solve the problem...
any suggestions ?

thanks and ciao
peter

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ownership of /var/lock

[jano]

sudo?

> hi !
>
> being fed up of starting wvdial as root, i found that
> an ordinary user, though in group dialout, can't use wvdial
> properly, because of lack of permissions for /var/lock.
> by default it is root.uucp
> i changed it to root.dialout,
> but i assume that's not the best way to solve the problem...
> any suggestions ?
>
> thanks and ciao
> peter
>
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>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] ownership of /var/lock

[Peter Kadau]

hi !

> sudo?

err, nope, that's not the kind of solution i'm after...
pppd is already a suid-binary, and wvdial should work
with the good old unix-style groups-mechanism.

i'm gonna have a look how debian does that.
they have a group "dip", but i don't know, what was 
that good for again ??
 
[snip]
> > i changed it to root.dialout,
> > but i assume that's not the best way to solve the problem...
> > any suggestions ?

thanks and ciao
peter

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