help with wvdial

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 19:51, Bryce C wrote:
> 1. To quit, type Ctrl-C.
> 2. Try chmod 777 /dev/modem. That should allow any user to wvdial. If
> not, do ls -al /dev/modem and then chmod 777
> WHATEVER_/DEV/MODEM_IS_POINTING_TO
>
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I believe that the latter is what you need to do because a symbolic link
would have all privileges - leaving it to the target to decide the
privileges.

Craig