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On Monday 20 November 2006 13:59, Michael Crute wrote: |
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> On 11/20/06, Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > I have tried a sudo command for a switch on the modubar |
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> > and it seemed to fight back, but its possible that I didn't get |
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> > it set up right. Any suggestions or pointers would be very helpful. |
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As far as I know there are 3, maybe 4 ways of running a script as root: |
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a)You launch a terminal as a plain user and then su to root; which |
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unfortunately requires you to enter a password. |
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The menu entry could be something like: |
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[exec] (eth0 up) {xterm -e su -c '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start'} |
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</usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/knetattach.png> |
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This will launch an xterm which will ask you for a password (root) before you |
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can login and execute the init.d script. |
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b)You have already defined the command in sudo in which case you can run it |
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directly as a plain user. |
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The menu entry could look like this: |
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[exec] (eth0 down) {xterm -e sudo /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop} |
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The sudoers entry to allow the particular init.d script to run looks like so: |
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# Host alias specification |
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Host_Alias BOX1 = lappy |
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# User alias specification |
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User_Alias ME = michael |
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# Shutting down the Internet |
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ME BOX1 = NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop |
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c)You set the root password to remain in memory for a set period of time |
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after you enter it once, so that you do not have to enter it *every* time you |
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su to root. I can't remember where you set this . . . probably because I |
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have never used it (for security purposes). Someone else please fill in |
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this? |
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d)You can set the executable script as suid. Then it will run with the |
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owners permissions (root) as opposed to the person who's running it (plain |
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user) |
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> > I am looking for recommendations on a multi network chat client. I |
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> > have been using gaim for quite some time, however, there are some |
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> > problems in the latest version, and it does not seem that they will be |
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> > resolved for quite some time. I have looked at kopete, but its irc |
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> > support is very lacking, especially compared to kvirc which I love. I |
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> > am interested in hearing what other options might be out there. |
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ksirc? Not as nice as kvirc, but probably lighter on resources. There's also |
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terminal based clients (but haven't used any). |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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