[lug] red hat dialer

[D. Stimits]

dan radom wrote:
> 
> 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

This last line is what I'd never done correctly. It now works. In a more
comic and cosmic setting, I then needed a way to drop the modem.
Normally I just use an alias as root for "killall -HUP wvdial" (it runs
in the background). I found that even if I added sudo ability for
killall -9 wvdial, it still wouldn't hang up. It managed to kill wvdial,
but pppd was still going, and ppp0 was still up. Eventually I got
ifconfig ppp0 down to drop the interface...still the phone was
connected. Then killall -9 worked on pppd to get the line down. Somehow
there is a sense of comedy that once sudo works, it's hard to stop
wvdial without becoming root, or using many commands.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> 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
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