From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GUUYT-0003uE-8n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:38:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k92KbJFL027020; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:37:19 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k92KVhKd014082 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:31:43 GMT Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD84B6201 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 21:31:42 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 21:31:38 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0? Message-ID: <20061002213138.1de2f106@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <5bdc1c8b0610021153q3865ff1ap28c83f8acead9a0a@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.8.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_juXNtO1tWsKGJFsqwZv_Tq.; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 15922fdc-9c62-46da-bb8c-bc9ee103465f X-Archives-Hash: 4215cdcdaa5d86e2bab9d8eba56e1782 --Sig_juXNtO1tWsKGJFsqwZv_Tq. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:38:39 -0400, Devon Miller wrote: > emerge app-admin/sudo >=20 > Edit /etc/sudoers and add: >=20 > username ALL=3D NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0 >=20 > Where username is his login. To run it: > sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart A slightly more secure approach is to create a script to do what you want the user to be able to do and add that to /etc/sudoers. Then you control how the commands are executed as well as which commands. You could put "/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart" in a script and give it a desktop icon or toolbar button, so he can restart the network with a mouse click. --=20 Neil Bothwick That's not a bug, it's a Free Enhanced Feature! --Sig_juXNtO1tWsKGJFsqwZv_Tq. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFIXcuum4al0N1GQMRAlPoAKDEvnBDXwfmsPPIE+A1uzMFFuYSfACgnbBN kdbWCZGL/NzYQaFXfdP+MrM= =iEAz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_juXNtO1tWsKGJFsqwZv_Tq.-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list