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Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 08:39:20 +1300
From: "Kent Fredric" <kentfredric@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user
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Passwordless SUDO on an app, or add some sgid/suid bits and do some
group twiddling on the apps that do all your magic as root. That
should at least be a good starting point :)
On 1/1/07, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> * Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>
> > Now it pretty much does - but to trigger the ppp interface 'up' state I
> > find myself doing stuff like:
> >
> > $ ping <ip of ISP nameserver>
> >
> > 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
> --
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> 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/
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>
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/<ent Fredric
(aka theJackal)
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