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From: Devon Miller <devon.c.miller@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:44:10
Message-Id: c52221f0610021238l59ef0c76pce275cb230650de0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0? by Mark Knecht
1 emerge app-admin/sudo
2
3 Edit /etc/sudoers and add:
4
5 username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0
6
7 Where username is his login. To run it:
8 sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart
9
10 dcm
11
12
13 On 10/2/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
14 >
15 > Hi,
16 > We have a machine here, my son's, which runs Gentoo and uses (I
17 > think) a D-Link 802.11abg NIC:
18 >
19 > 03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G
20 > 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
21 >
22 > The setup uses ndiswrapper to load the Windows driver. For some
23 > reason this NIC seems to go off line quite a bit - maybe once a day.
24 > I'm assuming that this is caused by the Windows driver & ndiswrapper
25 > having some sort of problem that is probably light years beyond my
26 > ability to debug. However running /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart always
27 > seems to get it going again.
28 >
29 > How can I set up the system to allow my son to run this command
30 > himself as a user? It appears that the script itself is runnable by a
31 > user, but when we try it I get a message that only root can run init
32 > scripts.
33 >
34 > Sector9 ~ # ls -al /etc/init.d/net.*
35 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Sep 16 10:14 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 -> net.lo
36 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30341 Sep 16 10:27 /etc/init.d/net.lo
37 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jul 29 11:31 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 -> net.lo
38 > Sector9 ~ #
39 >
40 > Is there an easy way to make this one script runnable by my son so
41 > that when I'm not around he can get things going again?
42 >
43 > On the other hand if there is an Open Source Linux driver for this
44 > card I'd love to install that but I don't know of one.
45 >
46 > Thanks,
47 > Mark
48 > --
49 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
50 >
51 >

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0? Mark Shields <laebshade@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0? Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>