[Techtalk] wvdial, pppd, and permissions insanity

[Wim De Smet]

On 10/14/05, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:
> OK gang, this is driving me nuts.
>
>[...]
> All brilliant notions welcome.
>
> Please note I have googled a lot and found the same problem all over. One
> suggested solution was using an alias file containing USERCTL=yes.
> (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-networkscripts-interfaces.html)
> Tried that. Didn't work.

I don't have much brilliance to tap from but might it be SELinux
related? Maybe the kernel is configured in such a way that normal
users just can't get at the device?

greets,
Wim