Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial: dialup for users

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

There are a couple of groups that you need to add your users to. -
"dialout" and "uucp".

Reading the message at the end of emerging wvdial tells you this. Also
reading the ebuild gives you the same information.

I am not criticising you, thiose messages flash by very quickly, and
reading the ebuild is not everyone's first port of call, but if I
educate one person to read the documentation and save one query to the
list i guess my job is done :-)

PS don't forget you have to log in again after you have been added to a
group. and "id" is a good command to see what groups you are in.



On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:15:15 +1000
"Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have tried alot of approaches.  Wvdial is superior for detecting hardware:
> it found my modem on ttyS14, where other approaches hadn't found it.
> 
> What I cannot seem to do is set up for my family to dial in from their
> accounts.  I have tried changing permissions of various kinds, adding user
> to dialout, etc.
> 
> UNCLE!
> 
> Alan Davis
> 
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