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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 :)


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