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
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
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
* 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
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
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
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
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