At 11:05 -0600 16/9/00, Ken Thompson wrote:
>Hello all,
>I just installed the 7.2b and can't use my internet dial up as normal
>user. I get the message "can't write modem lock file" in the debug window.
>I noticed this same problem with the 7.1b1 and never did find where the
>"modem lock file" is supposed to be, can anyone shed some light on this?
>       PS
>As root everything dials and works fine.

Fast and dirty: make /usr/sbin/pppd suid (chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd).

Clean: I think there is a user group to give permissions to dial and so
on, but never tried at home...
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