Can't dial as normal user

Retired General · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 58

I searched the forums but coun't find a solution to my problem.
I can't dial to my ISP when I log in as a normal user.

I added my normal user to the following groups:
users tty wheel audio cdrom dialout cdrw and set my modem
device /dev/tts/4 to be in group tty. When I try to dial with wvdial
however it says

tomas · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 62 Location: Sweden

I looked around a bit, and the problem you have is probably due to wrong permissions. So:
* Check that you have the correct permissions on the modem device
* Check that you have write access to /var/lock
That's what I found, anyway

EDIT: http://open.nit.ca/lists/archives/wvdial/msg00069.html

Retired General · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 58

I have write pemissions to /var/lock but when I try to change the permissions of my modem device it changes back. The modem device has read/write by owner (root) permissions and read by group. When I set it to read/write by group it just changes back and I still can't dial.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20588

Possibly this thread.
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Retired General · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 58

I tried all the suggestions in that thread but I still can't dial.

Retired General · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 58

It's working!!!
I made the group owner of /dev/tts/4 group tty and added the following to my /etc/devfsd.conf

trooper · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 7:12 am Post subject: eeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

g'day,

this is a message from the edge of insanity :evil:

i recently spent many many hours upgrading from 1.2 to 1.4rc1. thanks to the fab scripts supplied by ,Road_Runner, Humpback, and carpaski it was a breeze. great job blokes. i just kept saying yes and it all worked wonderfully.

forewarned with all the messages that incidental horrors might occur i plunged on. ignorance about what i'm doing has never stopped me yet (i attend a lot of software funerals).

after the upgrade (at last he gets to the point) i could no longer connect to the net via a user account (su can still do it) always get that ubiquitous "device or resource busy 'bitch' message".

(is always get & ubiquitous tautology?)

the sticking point appears to to be access to the dev/tts/LT0 (internal linmodem). the only user has access to tty. wheel, dialout, users, and daemon.with ps au it appears that root is not accessing /dev/tts/LT0 either! so who's using my device hey? lol

*sigh* rw access to pap secrets/chapsecrets,resolv.conf; and any other permission you can imagine and suggestions that have been mentioned in this thread & it's cross references has been tried and failed. aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggg!!!!!!!!!

an easy fix would be to setuid to /dev/tts/LT0. group and others already had +rw permissions . i know there is a symlink between /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/tts/LT0 ...could this be a cause?? under my /dev i do not have a ttyS0 showing?

(i'm here at last) now, when i try as root, via mc and gentoo file managers to change the set uid parameter it appears to change but after a restart/reboot it always reverts to no suid. i have also used the world +24660 chmod but the box still reverts to no suid 20660 upon restart.

why would something that i change as root via the command line & midnight commander etc, blah blah, blah, revert back to previous permissions? how can i make these changes permanent?

none of the changes i make in this area are permanent and i'm about to go mental in frustration

any suggestions/valium gratefully received.

regards,

trooper