I haven't tried setuid for the wvdial binary.  I have joined the users to
the groups "dialout" and "uucp".  I have also changed the owner of various
binaries to include users, including "wvdial".  I followed someone's advice
on the Inet and set pppd setuid for the group "ppp" which I also joined all
users to.

I don't want my wife to have to "sudo yada yada."  I want to grant her
permissions.  I have used pppconfig for years.  It won't find /dev/ttyS14,
while wvdial did, uniquely among all dialup clients I have tried.  kppp
didn't.  I had to make the tty's with MAKEDEV.   Maybe I can use pppconfig
now that I have found out the dev file.  Wvdial works well.

I would ideally like my wife to be able to click on a modem icon / applet to
dial in and to quit.  I understand why in a server environment, one would be
paranoid.  I WANT to grant this permission to users at my discretion.

Thank you for the ideas, everyone.  I will follow them up.

Alan Davis

On 11/28/05, Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:33:09 +0000
> "b.n." <brullonulla@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Alan E. Davis 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.
> >
> > suid the wvdial binary.
> > m.
>
> Don't do that! Just set the user in the correct groups per the
> instructions in the ebuild!
>
> suid is very rarely the correct answer. If it was the ebuild would do
> it for you.
>
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