Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-28 Thread kmark+debian-user
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:59:30PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: > >Hello > > > >H S (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > > > >>Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues > >>unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use > >>"pon dsl-p

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-27 Thread H. S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:34:24PM -0500, H S wrote: Hi, First of all a little background: To start with, I had installed Woody from the 6 (or 7?) CDs. Then I did a dist-upgrade. And lost KDE. It was asking for some ] nonexistant package (something to do with libsensors

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-27 Thread H. S.
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello H S (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use "pon dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make a normal user able to connect using dsl-p

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-27 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello H S (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues > unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use > "pon dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make a normal user > able to connect using dsl-provide? At prese

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-27 Thread kmark
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:34:24PM -0500, H S wrote: > Hi, > > First of all a little background: > To start with, I had installed Woody from the 6 (or 7?) CDs. Then I did a dist-upgrade. And lost KDE. It was asking for some ] nonexistant package (something to do with libsensors). This is a kno

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-27 Thread John Hasler
H S writes: > I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use "pon > dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make a normal user able to > connect using dsl-provide? At present, only root can do that. Add the user to the 'dip' group. You can do this in pppconfig. > Next, for some rea

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 11:28, H S wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 18:34, H S wrote: > > --snip-- > > > Next, for some reason, "eject" command is also root only? How do I > > > make normal user also be able to use that as well? > > > > The easiest way is to make the eject binary SUID root. (man chm

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 at 00:34 GMT, H S penned: [trials and tribulations snipped] > > Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues > unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use > "pon dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make a normal user > a

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 18:34, H S wrote: --snip-- > Next, for some reason, "eject" command is also root only? How do I > make normal user also be able to use that as well? The easiest way is to make the eject binary SUID root. (man chmod for more info) Note that making ANYTHING SUID root is general