Re: Dial to the Internet as User

[<karlp ourldsfamily com>]

I'm not sure if you will compromise your system by adding yourself to the
uucp group. I don't make it a practice of adding anyone other than myself.
For a time I just set the dialup network as ONBOOT=yes so I didn't have to
mess with permissions.

Does anyone else know about adding a regular user to the uucp group?

Karl L. Pearson
Senior Consulting Systems Analyst
Senior Consulting Database Analyst
karlp ourldsfamily com

On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Horace G. Friend III wrote:

Hi Karl,

Thanks for the tip about checking /dev/modem.

I changed the ff. files/devices/scripts to group dialer:
pppd, /dev/modem, dialling-script, hangup-script, /etc/ppp/pap-secrets, /etc/ppp/resovl.conf.

I could but did not change the group ownership of /dev/ttyS1 which was already owned by uucp. The /dev/modem links to this device. I just added myself to the uucp group. Otherwise I could not still dial as a regular user.

My question now is, did I do the right thing by adding myself to the uucp group? Am I not compromising anything in my system?

Thanks again.

Horace G. Friend III
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