[ILUG] Permissions Problem (I think)

[Caolan McNamara]

On 09-Jun-99 David O'Callaghan wrote:
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>Good Morning,
>
>Now, I don't really regard myself as a newbie (you'll have to take my word
>for this) but I did a stupid thing. I had just recompiled my kernel and
>found that my serial ports were disabled. I solved that but while I was at
>it I thought I might have a go making wvdial (the dialler that comes with
>SuSE 6.1) accessible to my main user since it's a standalone machine and
>I'm the only user. As a start I went to make the configuration file,
>wvdial.conf, world read-writable. But by mistake I typed:
>
>chmod 666 /etc/ wvdial.conf
>
>So, basically I'd set the /etc/ directory to 666. Then I realised what I'd
>done and instead of stopping there I went ahead and did:
>
>chmod 600 /etc/

chmod 755 /etc

all other problems stem from an ordinary user not being able to read the /etc 
dir. (id say).

C.

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