Dial-up with Suse 8.1

[stryder144]

I've got a little problem that I hope the Suse fans can help me out with. I am setup as a member of the dial-out group but I can't dial out (it says I don't have permission to and that I need to be a member of the dial-out group). What should I do? I tried using Yast to set this up. Is it best to just use the standard cli in this case? If so, which files should I give the user permission to have access to (I have never run into this permission problem before, so I am a little hazy on how to resolve it)?

Cheers

[cga]

Well, I am not sure. On my 8.0 setup, I setup my dial up connection with YaST and it works fine, both from my GUI KDE system tray and from CLI.

[Schotty]

just for shits and giggles, lets see what the actual permissions are for the dialing app. Perhaps there is where the problem lies. I dont recall having any issues with suse in the past, but maybe the perms got screwed. Plus try logging out and then back in. I do recall that there were a few times in the past where I needed to relog in to make changes work on my user account.

[stryder144]

Silly little problem! I didn't have permission to access the modem, even though I had permission to dial-out. Since I am using Suse 8.1 right now, obviously giving myself permission to access the modem did wonders! ;D