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Passwordless SUDO on an app, or add some sgid/suid bits and do some |
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group twiddling on the apps that do all your magic as root. That |
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should at least be a good starting point :) |
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On 1/1/07, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> * Mark Kirkwood <markir@××××××××××××.nz> wrote: |
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> > Now it pretty much does - but to trigger the ppp interface 'up' state I |
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> > find myself doing stuff like: |
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> > $ ping <ip of ISP nameserver> |
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> > or similar, because hostname access will just return "host not found" |
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> > immediately without trying to bring the link up. |
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> You could simply ping some fixed IPs somewhere in the wide world. |
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> But I'm not shure if you really want such an quite uncontrollable |
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> automatic dialup or probably some button for "Dialup"/"Hangup" on |
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> the desktop ? For that way you need some way of privilege switching |
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> (w/o password). "su-wrapper" (not yet in portage) is your friend :) |
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> cu |
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> Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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> Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
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> http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
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> Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
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> http://patches.metux.de/ |
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/<ent Fredric |
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(aka theJackal) |
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