Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:38:39 -0400, Devon Miller wrote:

> emerge app-admin/sudo
>
> Edit /etc/sudoers and add:
>
> username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0
>
> Where username is his login. To run it:
> sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart

A slightly more secure approach is to create a script to do what you want
the user to be able to do and add that to /etc/sudoers. Then you control
how the commands are executed as well as which commands.

You could put "/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart" in a script and give it a
desktop icon or toolbar button, so he can restart the network with a
mouse click.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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