Hmmm... I'm a Debian newbie using wvdial as an ordinary user, so I wonder about the legitimacy of my method.
I've added my username to the 'dialout' group in '/etc/group'. After you edit that file, exacute, 'update-passwd'. Then try wvdial as an ordinary user. I do get some warning at connection time: --> PPP negotiation detected. --> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied --> --> PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) may be flaky. --> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied --> --> CHAP (Challenge Handshake) may be flaky. --> Starting pppd at Fri Mar 23 06:35:28 2001 But the connection works! Hope this helps, Barry On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:30:15AM +0000, Usuario Universo Online ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello- > > My questions regards the safety of using the wvdial program to log on > to > the ISP and surf. > Wvdial can only be set to be run as root, isn't that right? > If it isn't so, how should you set permission to run it without being > root? > Is this even something we should be worrying about? Is it safe to run > wvdial as root then surf? > > Help would be greatly appreciated, I'm not quite a total newbie with > Linux, but I'm not a "techie". > Thank you. > > Best regards, > > Henry L. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
