Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Run wvdial as normal user

Here is a way I found out to run wvdial as a normal user:

#adduser <you> dip
#adduser <you> dialout
#chmod 660 /etc/wvdial.conf

Now you can run wvdial as normal user. No need 2 be root.
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