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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H1424-0003fl-28 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:59:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBVGuahQ013294; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:56:36 GMT Received: from s15216962.onlinehome-server.info (s15216962.onlinehome-server.info [217.160.22.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBVGsSra010492 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:54:33 GMT Received: (from uucp@localhost) by s15216962.onlinehome-server.info (8.13.3/8.13.3/SuSE Linux 0.7) with UUCP id kBVGsItW026314 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:54:18 +0100 Received: (from weigelt@localhost) by nibiru.metux.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) id kBVGTfax017989 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:29:41 +0100 Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:29:41 +0100 From: Enrico Weigelt To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user Message-ID: <20061231162941.GB9539@nibiru.local> References: <459735C2.7040705@paradise.net.nz> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <459735C2.7040705@paradise.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Terror: bin laden, kill bush, Briefbombe, Massenvernichtung, KZ, X-Nazi: Weisse Rasse, Hitlers Wiederauferstehung, 42, X-Antichrist: weg mit schaeuble, ausrotten, heiliger krieg, al quaida, X-Killer: 23, endloesung, Weltuntergang, X-Doof: wer das liest ist doof X-Archives-Salt: c3efd781-99b3-478e-84fe-a436c0881955 X-Archives-Hash: 5247daafc826d25ba20649fa14076532 * Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Now it pretty much does - but to trigger the ppp interface 'up' state I > find myself doing stuff like: > > $ ping > > or similar, because hostname access will just return "host not found" > immediately without trying to bring the link up. You could simply ping some fixed IPs somewhere in the wide world. But I'm not shure if you really want such an quite uncontrollable automatic dialup or probably some button for "Dialup"/"Hangup" on the desktop ? For that way you need some way of privilege switching (w/o password). "su-wrapper" (not yet in portage) is your friend :) cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list