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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Karolis Lyvens wrote:

> 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
>
> ----
> chmod +rw /dev/ttyS1    OR

I did this and it is now crwxr-xr-x.
chmod +w had no effect.

> chmod 777 /dev/ttyS1

This made it crwxrwxrwx.
I will try dialing as user once I get offline (as root).

Do you need to read and write to the port to dial?

> ----
>
> (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...
>
> ----
> chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/ppp-on
> chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/ppp-off
> ----
>
> 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:
>
> ----
> #!/bin/sh
> ----
>
> Eg, ppp-on should look like this:
>
> ----
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/eznet up
> ----

I run it directly from eznet without these scripts.
I have a dial script which loads modules and then eznet up 0 or 1 or 2.

I will try with the user-rw-permitted /dev/ttyS1
> Karolis
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