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[Karolis Lyvens <karolisl AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 06:49:46PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> 
> > sindi keesan wrote:
> >>
> >> BL3 will only dial as 'root'.
> >
> > That's not correct.  It is possible to configure eznet/pppd
> > so that an ordinary user can do ppp-on and ppp-off.
> 
> My error message with 'user' in BL2 is Failed to open /dev/ttyS1.
> crwxr-x--x - should I chmod +r this?

Try

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chmod +rw /dev/ttyS1    OR
chmod 777 /dev/ttyS1
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(But i don't think that this will be needed if we try the following
 method)

> /usr/bin/eznet is -rwsr-sr-x (I may have changed this already).
> pppd is -rwsr-sr-x (compiled by David Moberg for 2.4.31 kernel but I 
> may have changed it already)
> 
> Dialing is my unsolved 'user' problem.  To go online as user I could dial 
> first as root but I cannot ask other people to learn to do this.  Could I 
> make some script to dial as superuser after logging in as user?

Maybe setuid would help to solve this problem...

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chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/ppp-on
chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/ppp-off
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Now, try to launch one of these as an ordinary user. If it doesn't work,
i have one idea:

When examining scripts that come with BL, i noiced that some of them do
not have so called "sh(e|a)bang" line. Neither "ppp-on" or "ppp-off" have
them. So, prepend the following line to them:

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#!/bin/sh
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Eg, ppp-on should look like this:

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#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/eznet up
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Karolis