[lug] red hat dialer

[dan radom]

xterm -fg white -bg black -n wvdial -T wvdial -e sudo wvdial

the above is from my blackbox menu file.  it works just fine...

-rw-------    1 root     root          273 Oct  2 16:48 /etc/wvdial.conf

lastly from sudoers...

graffix ALL=NOPASSWD : /usr/bin/wvdial

dan

> I like wvdial too, but there seems to be one quirk in using it with sudo
> I never figured out. /etc/wvdial.conf must be readable only by root, or
> else the whole world could see the login password at the ISP. One can
> give individuals sudo authority to run wvdial, but then the contents of
> wvdial.conf are still closed off, so it would fail. Can anyone suggest
> how to set sudo to give specific non-root users authority to run wvdial?
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com