Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2007-01-31 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I'm looking at setting up a Gentoo box for my mother to use. One thing I'd like some input on is the business of dialing up. The constraints are that she must be able to dial up as an unprivileged user, and it must be easy (She will be migrating from an old imac running

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2007-01-02 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 December 2006 22:20, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Kent Fredric wrote: 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 :) Thanks - but making extra programs

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2006-12-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 30 December 2006 22:00, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user': 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2006-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2006-12-31 Thread Kent Fredric
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2006-12-31 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 22:00, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user': Now it pretty much does - but to trigger the ppp interface 'up' state I find myself doing stuff like: $ ping ip of ISP nameserver

[gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I'm looking at setting up a Gentoo box for my mother to use. One thing I'd like some input on is the business of dialing up. The constraints are that she must be able to dial up as an unprivileged user, and it must be easy (She will be migrating from an old imac running osx, so I want to make